Movies like Highwaymen

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Highwaymen (2004)
 5.6
 9K
Highwaymen (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for Fargo's 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, which the now-disabled killer has turned into a rolling death trap. James' search is helped by a state traffic officer and a singer with her own agenda.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, road movie, exciting, rough, surprise ending, slasher, surreal, dread ...
Plot: serial killer, car chase, revenge, obsession, murder, hit and run, death of wife, psychopath, homicidal maniac, car accident, danger, abduction, showdown, paraplegic, woman in jeopardy, chases and races, rivalry, violent content, classic car, car, insanity, killer car, graphic violence, hostage, car crash ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: gangsters, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to Highwaymen

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, slasher and scary films with plots about serial killer, murder, psychopath, killer, danger, deadly and maniac mostly in Thriller, Horror and Crime genres. Some movies like Highwaymen: The Hitcher (2007), The Hitcher (1986), P2 (2007), Joy Ride 3: Road Kill (2014), Cobra (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.6
 45K
The Hitcher (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the ...
Style: slasher, scary, road movie, suspense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, road trip, hitchhiker, murder, gory, desert, survival, on the run, sociopath, car crash, torture ...
Time: year 2007, 70s
Place: new mexico, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 52K
The Hitcher (1986)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style: road movie, slasher, psychological, scary, neo noir ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, hitchhiker, psychopath, desert, on the road, insanity, stalker, stalking, car chase, sociopath, road trip ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 36K
P2 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: obsession, survival, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, escape attempt, maniac, danger, stalker, hostage, stalking, torment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Joy Ride 3: Road Kill (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: evil wins, truck driver, psychopath, truck, serial killer, sadistic horror, psycho killer, road rage, murder, highway, torture, sadistic killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.8
 79K
Cobra (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
Style: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot: serial killer, murder, car chase, one man army, hostage, police investigation, violence, vigilante, tough cop, gang, rivalry, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 312K
Death Proof (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Style: road movie, sexy, grindhouse, suspense, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, violence, exploitation, dark humor, revenge, car chase, vengeance, killer, stalking, stuntman, violent ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tennessee, texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 64K
Mindhunters (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, mind game, island, twists and turns, trap, investigation, profiler, psycho killer, murder, survival, bloody violence, killing spree ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 78K
Duel (1971)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, suspense, exciting, tension ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, car chase, truck, chase, on the road, road rage, psychopath, truck driver, driving, car, stalking, mysterious villain ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: california, persia, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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See No Evil 2 (2014)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: gory, psychopath, serial killer, danger, strong violent content, profanity, rivalry, man in a wheelchair, serial murder, murder, chase, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 28K
The Watcher (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Vietnam
Duration: 97 min.
Story: FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, fbi, psychopath, psychiatrist, obsession, serial murder, chase, mind game, race against time, police investigation, killer ...
Time: y2k, year 2000, 90s
Place: chicago, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The First Power (1990)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man born out of an incestuous relationship, after enduring an emotionally scarring childhood, gives in to the dark side of Satanic forces and becomes a weapon of evil. He kills with such ferocity that he becomes the main target of the ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, deal with the devil, satanist, occult, police investigation, murder, police detective, danger, human sacrifice, clergy, supernatural, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the ...
Style: slasher, scary, teen, creepy, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, monster, school, high school, holiday horror, masked killer, faked death, serial teen killer, halloween party, van, killer ...
Time: 90s, y2k, 20th century, year 1998
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Striking Distance (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-way duty Tom, along with new partner Jo ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, suspense, intense, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, police corruption, police, frame up, river, investigation, chase, murder mystery, plot twist, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, year 1991
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 109K
The Cell (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style: psychological, surreal, psychedelic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, virtual reality, mind game, fbi, investigation, schizophrenia, dream ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 29K
See No Evil (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain -- a group that includes the cop ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, maniac, hotel, gory, monster, danger, blood, murder, sadistic horror, violence, torture ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below ...
Style: slasher, suspense, detective, realistic, serious ...
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, serial killer, kidnapper, violence, psycho killer, tv reporter, rape victim, race against time, investigation, children ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.1
 2K
Escapee (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, violence spree, serial killer, murder, night, escape, danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Last Showing (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, captivity, obsession, vengeance, murder, maniac, insanity, violence, serial murder, serial killer, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, danger, chase, wedding, psychopath, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Midnight Ride (1990)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin McKay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, slasher, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cannon, killer, truck, terror, trucker, automobile, immigrant, psychopath, hostage, murder, stalking ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.6
 9K
Amsterdamned (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, diving, mystery killer, scuba diving, psychopath, masked killer, mind game, investigation, danger, killer, underwater, murder mystery ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, holland, netherlands, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
Style: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, police investigation, couple relations, mysterious villain, psychopath, murder investigation, evil man, violence, police detective ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.9
 19K
The Wraith (1986)
Genre: Action, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death after finding him with ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, cult classic, road movie ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, righting the wronged, danger, killer car, reincarnation, chases and races, car, chase, car chase, gang, nudity, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.7
 91K
Jigsaw (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways. All investigations begin to point the finger at deceased killer John Kramer.
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: game of death, torture, survival horror, gory violence, serial killer, psychopath, revenge, abduction, serial murder, held captive, panic, coma ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 7K
Madman (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At a summer camp for youths, cocky pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, summer camp, camp counselor, stalking, murder, danger, teenage life, forest, exploitation, woods, maniac, camp ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, year 1981
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Halloween Kills (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, slasher horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, killing spree, psycho, halloween, evil, gory, violence, holiday horror, maniac, psycho killer ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 2010s, year 1978, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, hitchhiker, mind game, on the road, woman in danger, survival, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, police investigation, murder ...
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Night Caller (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the ...
Style: neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, car chase, psychopath, strangulation, pursuit, woman in danger, homicidal maniac, law enforcement, mysterious villain, evil man, criminal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
 168K
Halloween (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This film, ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, halloween, masked killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, violence, terror, psycho killer, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 31K
Psycho II (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, splatter ...
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, psychiatrist, psycho, mental illness, employer employee relationship, female nudity, police station ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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