Movies like Repo Man

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Repo Man (1984)
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Repo Man (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, enigmatic, funny, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, alien, surrealism, car trunk, absurdism, punk rocker, mad scientist, car chase, conspiracy theory, punk rock, ufo, business, torture, bounty hunter, juvenile delinquent, robbery, radioactivity, teen angst, crime spree, flying car, shootout, distopia, mentor, great ending, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place: california, los angeles, arizona, usa
Keyword: vulgarity, visit, gangsters, trunk

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Most similar movies to Repo Man

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy and humorous films with plots about murder, chase, violence, police, death, explosion and shot to death mostly in Action, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Repo Man: Liquid Sky (1982), Freejack (1992), RoboCop (1987), After Hours (1985), Tank Girl (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Liquid Sky (1982)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: alien, sex, punk, heroin, androgyny, space and aliens, punk rock, drug, surrealism, orgasm, lgbt, alien invasion ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: new york, usa
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100%
 5.4
 17K
Freejack (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Style: futuristic, entertaining, cyber, tech noir, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, cyberpunk, on the run, chase, dystopian future, dystopia, racing, bounty hunter, apocalypse, car, auto racing, death ...
Time: future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 281K
RoboCop (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, black comedy, cyber, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens, kids
Plot: cyberpunk, robot, cyborgs, police, androids and robots, robocop, violence, revenge, dystopia, graphic violence, gory, superhero ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1987, near future
Place: detroit, usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Style: humorous, spoof, surreal, stylized, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, alien invasion, superhero, chase, mad scientist, rescue, interdimensional travel, scientist, time travel, space, experiment gone awry, danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: new jersey, asia, usa, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.6
 80K
After Hours (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style: surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, atmospheric ...
Plot: twists and turns, dark humor, subway, city life, suicide, artist, mistaken identity, female nudity, nightclub, coincidence, surrealism, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 35K
Tank Girl (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
Style: stylized, futuristic, exciting, slapstick, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, female protagonist, punk, post apocalypse, female warrior, post apocalyptic, kickass women, cyberpunk, wasteland, female fighter, save the world, comic book ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 19K
Strange Brew (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug Mackenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront the suspicious Brewmeister Smith and two teams of ...
Style: psychotronic, parody, humorous, laugh out loud, not serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: beer, conspiracy, hockey, farce, shakespeare, mental institution, mind control, ghost, brother brother relationship, stupidity, chase, satire ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Southland Tales (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an ...
Style: surreal, futuristic, allegory, cult classic, cynical ...
Plot: time travel, dystopian future, alternate reality, memory, apocalypse, prophecy, chaos, end of the world, distopia, marxism, mad scientist, drug ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 2006, near future, 2000s ...
Place: los angeles, middle east, nevada, afghanistan, southern california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: truck, supernatural, crazy, gas station, carsploitation, monster, car, hostage, danger, animate object, heroic mission, disaster ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, clever, witty, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, dark humor, organized crime, twists and turns, crime gone awry, disorder, gang, nothing goes right, debt, violent, friends ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.2
 144K
They Live (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style: exciting, allegory, political, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien, alien invasion, distopia, dystopia, mind control, ufo, anti conformity, invasion, evil alien, monster, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.9
 27K
Men at Work (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
Style: funny, humorous, intense, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: murder, justice, brothers, partner, disorder, dishonesty, goofy hero, amateur detective, buddies, cons and scams, buddy, workplace ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Style: cult classic, black comedy, satirical, independent film, allegory ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, blaxploitation, drug abuse, urban, black, friendly alien, mind power, invasion, ufo, drug ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when mop boy Melvin Junko falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
Style: grindhouse, dark comedy, splatter, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: superhero, bullying, satire, gory, freak, monster, brutality, blood, absurd violence, toxic waste, corruption, body horror ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Style: dark comedy, entertaining, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gunfight, assassin, suburbs, hitman, secretary, high school reunion, small town, radio dj, psychiatrist, therapy, sniper, killer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 80s, 90s
Place: michigan, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Save the Green Planet! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A traumatized young man abducts Korean leaders, believing they're toxic reptilian aliens - a fifth column launching a takeover of beloved Earth. Stumped law enforcement geniuses half-seriously hire a disgraced, disheveled private detective with ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, alien, kidnapping, investigation, torture, dark humor, save the world, biopunk, space and aliens, twists and turns, anti hero, brutality ...
Place: south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.8
 93K
RoboCop 2 (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. ...
Style: futuristic, bloody, cyber, stylized, tech noir ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, robot, superhero, robocop, police, comic book, tough girl, extreme violence, distopia, law enforcement ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: michigan, texas, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Attack the Block (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A teen gang in a grim South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
Style: horror comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, unusual plot structure, bleak ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, manly, boys' night
Plot: gang, alien invasion, creature, alien, space and aliens, deadly creature, chase, children, teenage life, danger, violence, gangster ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: london, england, somalia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Taxi (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
Style: hilarious, realistic, not serious, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: car chase, taxi driver, taxi, partners against crime, law enforcement, buddy cop, disorder, buddies, rivalry, odd couple, gang, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 20th century, year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.5
 110K
The Warriors (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, street gang, gang, violence, gang war, subway, gang member, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti, assassination ...
Time: future, year 1979, 70s, near future
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Italian Job (1969)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one his of friends has attempted a high risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over ...
Style: cliffhanger, exciting, humorous, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, caper, robbery, mafia, heist, thief, chase, gold, police, prison, perfect crime, car ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: italy, england, turin italy, bolivia, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.6
 266K
Bad Boys II (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Out-of-control, trash-talking buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force reunite, and bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the barrios of ...
Style: funny, entertaining, stylized, exciting, action comedy ...
Audience: manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: buddy cop, police, drug lord, car chase, gunfight, chase, partner, gangster, law enforcement, friendship between men, foul language, buddy ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: miami, florida, iran, usa, puerto rico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 51K
The 51st State (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more ...
Style: humorous, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, chemist, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, culture clash, drug, golf, drug dealing, car chase, gang war, partner ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s
Place: england, los angeles, liverpool, northern england, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 6.9
 262K
Crank (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
Style: intense, exciting, dark comedy, cult classic, action thriller ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: hitman, revenge, vengeance, dark humor, tough heroes, assassin, one man army, lone hero, gory, car chase, cell phone, poison ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, iran, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.8
 40K
Bulletproof (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is ...
Style: funny, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, buddy, drug lord, betrayal, buddy cop, justice, police, unlikely friendships, adaptation, criminal heroes, working undercover, hidden identity ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.7
 192K
Demolition Man (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, utopia, crime fighter, time travel, dystopia, totalitarianism, maverick cop, police, violence, dystopian future, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.4
 369K
The Nice Guys (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Style: neo noir, entertaining, buddy comedy, detective, suspense ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, corruption, conspiracy, father daughter relationship, private investigator, bare breasts, buddy cop, buddy, single father, murder, justice ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 70s, 90s, year 1977 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.9
 714K
District 9 (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style: mockumentary, serious, suspense, biting, futuristic ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, distopia, space and aliens, alien encounter, apocalypse, transformation, mutation, metamorphosis, refugee, society ...
Time: year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.6
 7K
Dolemite (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green ...
Style: grindhouse, hood, surreal, funny, black comedy ...
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, exploitation, profanity, black, prison, frame up, african american, insult, shootout, hip hop, woman with a gun ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.5
 180K
Idiocracy (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, absurd, dark comedy, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, stupidity, time travel, satire, dystopian future, dystopia, evolution, social satire, absurdism, dimwit, society, hibernation ...
Time: future, year 2006, y2k, distant future, year 2005 ...
Place: texas, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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