Movies like Living & Dying

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Living & Dying (2007)
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Living & Dying (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, tough heroes, heist, crime gone awry, hitman, master criminal, danger, law enforcement, on the run, disorder, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, woman with a gun, hostage, rape, female nudity, puzzle, escape, bank, chases and races, rivalry, suburbs, confined, suburban life, violence spree ...
Time: contemporary

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Most similar movies to Living & Dying

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about rivalry, criminal heroes, deadly, chases and races, crime gone awry, law enforcement and dishonesty mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Living & Dying: Stealing Candy (2003), High Voltage (1998), Styx (2001), Puzzle (2006), Betrayal (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stealing Candy (2003)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three ex-cons kidnap a famous movie star and force her to film a sex tape live on the internet for a paying audience.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexploitation film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sexploitation, woman in danger, femme fatale, confined, criminal's revenge, hostage, movie star, crime gone awry, danger, criminal heroes, computers and web, kidnapping ...
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100%
 4.5
 710
High Voltage (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, criminal heroes, disorder, danger, chases and races, gangster, shootout, crime gone awry, rivalry, law enforcement, good versus evil, bank ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.7
 491
Styx (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing money to organised crime and Nelson needs to do one last big job, with a few other professionals.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police shootout, debt, unlikely criminals, going straight, rivalry, criminal heroes, gang, dishonesty, master criminal, betrayal, brother brother relationship, safecracker ...
Place: cape town south africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 303
Puzzle (2006)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five strangers, each with his own special talents, are recruited by the mysterious 'X'. They do not know why they are brought together, but nonetheless agree to a series of potentially lucrative schemes. A planned bank robbery goes awry ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, crime gone awry, suspicion, master criminal, undercover, dishonesty, law enforcement, race against time, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.3
 1K
Betrayal (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, spoof
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, on the run, chase, dishonesty, police investigation, female assassin, master criminal, criminal heroes, single parent, femme fatale, danger, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Immortals (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An elaborate heist unites 8 strangers in a simultaneous assault on targets all over the city- and explodes in a hailstorm of gunfire and high-speed chases in this powerful action-thriller. Recruited by a Mafia nightclub owner (Eric Roberts), 4 ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, reluctant partners, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, partner, disorder, odd couple, mind game, rivalry, criminal heroes, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Piano Player (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: piano, master criminal, danger, criminal heroes, confined, mission of murder, chase, undercover, manhunt, law enforcement, hidden identity, frame up ...
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Executive Target (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: His wife held hostage, a stunt driver is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.
Style: suspense, cult classic, independent film, fast, captivating ...
Plot: car chase, car, die hard, terrorism, political conspiracy, violent, speed, heroes, kidnapping, confined, chases and races, gang ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.1
 473
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%
 4.5
 4K
Hard Cash (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Released from prison, an infamous thief and his new crew pull of a brilliant robbery but then become embroiled with a corrupt FBI agent when they discover the money is marked.
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, action packed, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, police corruption, prison, criminal heroes, cons and scams, partner, special agent, law enforcement, chases and races, crime gone awry, danger, criminal's revenge ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 6K
Steal (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, stylized, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, bank, parachuting, bank robbery, reluctant partners, car chase, partner, chase, police investigation, master criminal, femme fatale, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 558
Killing Time (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the mobster who murdered his partner is acquitted, semicorrupt detective Robert Bryant hires a beautiful female assassin, Maria, to kill him. When he discovers that he cannot afford Maria's services, Bryant is forced to hire another ...
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: hitman, vengeance, woman with a gun, police corruption, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, femme fatale, rivalry, serial killer, goofy hero, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 859
Blue Tiger (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gena is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, whilst shopping with him for a halloween mask, her son is accidently shot through the chest by a Japanese Gunman, trying to kill an opposing gang of bus operators. Gena notices that ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, mafia, revenge, death of son, gangster, strong female presence, martial arts, hitman, on the run, lone wolves, chases and races ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 2K
The Escapist (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, prison, tough heroes, violence spree, heroes, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, gang, revenge, escape, fugitives ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 1K
Below Utopia (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot: murder, crime gone awry, family gatherings, heist, confined, danger, gunfight, sex scene, woman with a gun, making love, mansion, sensuality ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 855
The Hard Easy (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal's revenge, gang, unlikely criminals, heist, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, master criminal, gangster, stock broker, gambling, compulsive gambler, ex wife ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
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Swindle (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, criminal heroes, disorder, gang, dishonesty, fall in love, master criminal, money, rivalry, law enforcement, police corruption, cons and scams ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.2
 402
Death Train (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, train, on the run, save the day, hostage, danger, undercover, gunfight, die hard, hijacking, railway, subway ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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%
Federal Protection (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: "Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, touching, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, dishonesty, hidden identity, social decay, master criminal, betrayal, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, disorder, fish out of water ...
Place: usa, chicago, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
Road of No Return (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, undercover, danger, introspection, race against time, politics, law enforcement, anti hero, heroes, rivalry, orphan, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.1
 853
Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, profanity, gangster, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 5.3
 730
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Top of the World (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, casino, false accusation, criminal heroes, police investigation, crime gone awry, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, chases and races, dishonesty, partner, die hard ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 405
Rapid Fire (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A desperate band of Militia men attempts a daylight bank robbery in the sleepy semi-rural City of Norco, California, and leads the local Police on the longest, most violent running gun battle in Law Enforcement history. Based on the true events.
Style: tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: crime gone awry, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, bank, danger, swat, suburbs, car chase, chases and races, disorder, battles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, hostage, criminal heroes, police investigation, shootout, confined, chase, danger, crime gone awry, murder, robbery, bank robber ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.4
 334
Detour (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: on the run, warehouse, mob boss, gangster, gang, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, going straight, law enforcement, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.5
 609
Red Line (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A car thief is seen stealing, and is blackmailed into stealing more cars for someone else's profit.
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, racing, chase, gangster, voyeur, friends, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, chases and races, crime gone awry, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.5
 392
Money Crush (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic cash. However, when the trade goes awry, three men end up murdered- one a cop with a vengeful ...
Style: independent film, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forgery, good versus evil, nypd, murder, cop, shootout, deal, sister, killer, undercover, criminal, money ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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