Movies like The Road Killers

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The Road Killers (1994)
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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, anamorphic, cult classic, independent film, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witnessing a crime, psychopath, gang, kidnapping, woman in danger, serial killer, missing person, hostage, rescue, danger, family in danger, father son relationship, fugitives, maniac, revenge, truck, murder, sadist, sheriff, highway, road trip, terror, confrontation, trucker, outlaw ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Keyword: gangsters, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about chases and races, deadly, danger, murder, psychopath, chase and kidnapping mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Road Killers: Heaven's Burning (1997), The Piano Player (2002), The Escapist (2002), Implicated (1998), Road Rage (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, road movie, detective, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, hostage, on the run, obsession, revenge, bank robbery, love, yakuza, kidnapping, interracial romance, car chase, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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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%
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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%
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Implicated (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this offbeat thriller, Ann is a young woman trying to put her life back together after she lost her child in a car wreck. Formerly a single mother, Ann has recently started dating a man named Tom, and one day Tom asks Ann for a favor -- would she ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: psychopath, kidnapping, hostage, surrogate mother, family relations, couples, family problems, confined, single parent, dealing with death, missing person, death in the family ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Road Rage (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The highway to hell runs straight through a college campus in this compelling thriller about a killer truck. After helping a pretty co-ed out of a nasty domestic situation, Jim Travis gives the girl a lift home. But once on the road, the situation ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological
Plot: chase, psychopath, danger, college life, on the road, serial killer, automobile, stalking, rivalry, chases and races, college, woman in danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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
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100%
Hollywood Flies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Life is the buzz.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, chase, crime gone awry, murder, heist, couples, hitman, danger, dishonesty, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, missing person ...
Place: las vegas, usa, los angeles, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Breakdown (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, road movie, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, highway, chase, road trip, murder, conspiracy, desert, car breakdown, danger, couples, ransom, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, arizona, massachusetts, 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%
Tracks of a Killer (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snow, psycho, psychopath, rescue, chases and races, danger, rivalry, confined, uninhibited rivalry, captivity, kidnapping, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Keeper (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, psychopath, missing person, woman in danger, deputy sheriff, riddles and clues, isolation, who done it, captivity, serial killer, mentally unstable ...
Place: asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hide and Seek (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is dead.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: pregnancy, kidnapping, surrogate mother, missing person, obsession, captivity, female psychopath, family problems, mentally unstable, woman in danger, psychopath, danger ...
Time: 90s
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Banshee (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, race against time, heist, danger, car chase, master criminal, criminal's revenge, car thief, witnessing a crime, hostage, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 711
Blacktop (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a fight with her boyfriend (Lochlyn Munro), a woman (Kristin Davis) unknowingly accepts a ride from a psychopath (Meat Loaf Aday).
Style: psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, road trip, missing person, mind game, woman in danger, on the run, rescue, riddles and clues, murder, truck, trucker ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Kidnap (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A fortnight before her eighteenth birthday, Sonia goes missing. Her family receives a call informing them that she has been kidnapped and her estranged father, a US-based businessman, must now follow the kidnapper’s instructions to the letter if ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: stockholm syndrome, woman in danger, kidnapping, hostage, chase, vengeance, family relations, rivalry, rescue, danger, confined, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
American Perfect (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick ...
Style: road movie, neo noir, tense, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, on the road, murder, desert, psychiatrist, woman in danger, cons and scams, siblings relations, danger, chases and races, chase ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Transit (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A family on a road trip is stalked by criminals who stashed stolen money in their car.
Style: serious, realistic, road movie, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: road trip, on the road, father son relationship, family in danger, on the run, heist, husband wife relationship, swamp, expedition, car chase, stash, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.1
 485
Relentless 3 (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killings committed by another crafty serial killer whom targets Dietz's latest love interest.
Style: slasher, independent film, scary, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, police detective, die hard, serial murder, police investigation, police officer, psychopath, who done it, woman in danger, murder, mind game, investigation ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
The Desperate Trail (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke rides the same coach, handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes and headed for the hangman. In a ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pursuit, manhunt, chase, criminal heroes, old west, on the run, tough heroes, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, civil war, shootout ...
Time: 19th century, year 1994
Place: new mexico
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22%
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The Prodigy (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: "The Prodigy" tells the story of small-time enforcer Truman Fisher's vicious conflict with a sadistic assassin who has chosen the unwilling Truman to be his successor. The assassin, who goes by the alias Rains and whose exploits have ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, riddles and clues, law enforcement, gang, danger, police investigation, rivalry, psychopath, murder, assassin, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Hard Luck (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, gangster, drug dealing, chase, danger, dishonesty, partner, psychopath, hitman, car chase, drug abuse, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two kidnappers snatch a girl off the streets and imprison her in a remote beach house.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, rape, ransom, psychopath, airport, criminal, hell, cafe, murder, chase, crime gone awry, flashback ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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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21%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Do Not Disturb (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond (William Hurt) takes his wife (Jennifer Tilly) and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa (Francesca Brown), to the Netherlands -- where Melissa inadvertently witnesses a murder. Unable ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: fugitives, youth, murder, murder witness, disability, psychopath, riddles and clues, chases and races, race against time, mute or deaf, danger, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: amsterdam, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
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Carjacked (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Audience: adult
Plot: fugitives, hostage, woman in danger, manipulation, on the road, chases and races, rivalry, danger, single parent, car chase, kidnapping, hijacking ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
When the Bough Breaks (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
Style: scary, rough, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, missing person, murder, investigation, mentally unstable, witnessing a crime, female police officer, police investigation, woman in danger, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Starkweather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1958 Nebraska 19 year old garbageman Charles Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killing 11 people in three months, introducing America to spree killing.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, lovers on the run, psychopath, mind game, police investigation, gory, teenage life, law enforcement, violence spree, chase, true crime ...
Place: nebraska, usa, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Throttle (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Every day, millions of people descend into underground parking garages, get into their cars and drive to the safety of their homes. But tonight, five levels down in a deserted corporate parking structure, financial analyst Tom Weaver won't be ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, psychopath, confined, rivalry, isolation, on the run, frame up, master criminal, stalking, danger, automobile, die hard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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