Movies like Heaven's Burning

If you like "Heaven's Burning" you are looking for neo noir, road movie and cult classic movies about / with lovers on the run, hostage, on the run, bank robbery, revenge, obsession and love themes of Action, Crime and Drama genre shot in Australia.
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Heaven's Burning (1997)
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Heaven's Burning (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only to become a hostage in an unfolding robbery, until the getaway driver, Colin, saves her from his fellow robbers. They hit the road together, with the cops, her husband and the robbers in pursuit.
Style: neo noir, road movie, cult classic, detective, exciting, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: lovers on the run, hostage, on the run, bank robbery, revenge, obsession, love, yakuza, kidnapping, car chase, tragedy, on the road, tragic love, father son relationship, interracial romance, culture clash, death of brother, showdown, death of son, shootout, pursuit, chase, driver, gangster, motorcycle ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia, alaska, japan
Keyword: gangsters, australian

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Most similar movies to Heaven's Burning

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about murder, gangster, pistol, violence, held at gunpoint, betrayal and revolver mostly in Crime, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Heaven's Burning: No Way Back (1995), Quick (1993), Love and a .45 (1994), Catchfire (1990), The Getaway (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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No Way Back (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When F.B.I. Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafiaso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only sons death in the same operation and kidnaps Zacks son to ...
Style: fast, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, white supremacist, single father, hitman, crime boss, shootout, airplane, father son relationship, flight attendant, fbi agent, revenge ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona
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Quick (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, hitman, bodyguard, betrayal, chase, mafia, on the run, accountant, murder, corruption, manhunt, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love and a .45 (1994)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Small-time criminal Watty Watts attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black. The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene. ...
Style: road movie, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, chase, on the run, crime gone awry, fugitives, violence, caper, outlaw, killer, musician, love, white trash ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: texas, mexico, austin texas, seattle, usa ...
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100%
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Catchfire (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, fall in love, woman in danger, love affair, mafia, hidden identity, rescue, on the run, criminal heroes, manhunt, fugitives, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Road Killers (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witnessing a crime, gang, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, serial killer, missing person, danger, rescue, family in danger, hostage, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
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100%
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B. Monkey (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: teacher, sex, nudity, love, violence, gangster, hospital, storytelling, drinking, addiction, betrayal, british ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: london, paris france, england, united kingdom, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Last Rites (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, weeping, crying ...
Plot: sex with a priest, priest in love, italian mafia, wedding, church, infidelity, murder, prostitute, on the run, catholic church, castration, priest ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, latin america, usa, manhattan new york city, vietnam ...
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100%
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 ⇓
100%
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Payback (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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, suspense, black comedy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, money, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, anti hero, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, violence ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Black Dog (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.
Style: road movie, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: truck, car chase, rescue, chases and races, chase, fugitives, gang, arms dealer, race against time, on the run, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Metro (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: chase, hostage, revenge, sniper, violence, negotiation, hostage negotiator, car chase, police officer, swat team, murder, police investigation ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, tahiti, california, usa
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100%
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The Rookie (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, intense, semi serious, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: chase, police investigation, buddy cop, violence, rescue, buddy, car chase, pitbull, brutality, car, reluctant partners, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
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100%
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Backflash (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, crime gone awry, cons and scams, on the run, odd couple, danger, gangster, partner, rivalry, on the road, criminal heroes, disorder ...
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The Good Thief (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A compulsive gambler plans the heist of his life - a priceless collection of art from the world-class Casino Riviera in Monte Carlo.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: casino, heist, gambling, robbery, betrayal, one last job, prostitute, drug addiction, caper, forgery, painting, character study ...
Time: year 2002
Place: monte carlo, france, french riviera, europe, monaco ...
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Revenge (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he ...
Style: sexy, erotic, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Plot: betrayal, dangerous attraction, love triangle, couple relations, revenge, vengeance, adultery, unfaithful wife, friendship, desert, extramarital affair, love ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
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100%
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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
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100%
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Street Knight (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, cannon, vigilantism, kung fu, police detective, teenage life, gang, hostage, gangster, gang warfare, city life, against the odds ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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100%
Desert Saints (2002)
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Kiefer Sutherland is a hard-edged hit man. Known as the world's best professional killer, Sutherland is living a life of detached solitude when he is given an assignment that pairs him up with a sultry hitchhiker (Melora Walters). Before long, ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, manhunt, investigation, fbi, betrayal, undercover, murder, kidnapping, woman kills a man, rivalry, crime gone awry, danger ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora, arizona, tucson arizona
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100%
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
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100%
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7 Seconds (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.
Style: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, disorder, hostage, dishonesty, rivalry, daring rescue, gangster, chases and races, female warrior, death, murder, fight ...
Place: bucharest, romania
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100%
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Cohen and Tate (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, entertaining, perverse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, kidnapping, child in peril, child kidnapping, hostage, killer, witness protection, professional, gangster, psychopath, assassination attempt ...
Time: 80s
Place: austin texas, texas, houston texas, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Assassination Games (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: kickboxing, hitman, assassin, vengeance, assassination, chases and races, sniper, gang rape, martial arts, one against many, revenge, tragic hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bucharest, ukraine, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Until Death (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Bulgaria, Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Van Damme plays a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.
Style: rough, serious, suspense, action packed, cult classic ...
Plot: addiction, vengeance, life is a bitch, police, violence, brutality, heroin addict, betrayal, chase, revenge, martial artist, gory ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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True Romance (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Style: stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, intense, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, cocaine, gunfight, mafia, organized crime, drug dealing, husband wife relationship, hotel, pimp, love, mobster, gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: los angeles, usa, detroit, california, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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Parker (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, thief, tough heroes, fight scenes, betrayal, mafia, revenge, assassin, romancing a criminal, car chase, happy ending ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa, ohio, new orleans ...
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100%
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