Movies like Thieves Like Us
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Thieves Like Us (1974)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
Style:
neo noir, road movie, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic
Plot:
on the run, gangsters, murder, criminal, great depression, prison, heist, lovers on the run, thief, female nudity, love, loneliness, hicksploitation, bank, love and romance, fugitives, fall in love, prison life, journalism, americana, introspection, human nature, criminal heroes, dog, forest ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, mississippi river
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, neo noir and suspenseful films with plots about murder, gangsters, on the run, love and romance, violence, criminal and runaway mostly in Crime, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Thieves Like Us: Boxcar Bertha (1972), Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), F.T.W. (1994), Straight Time (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the ...
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lyrical, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
depression, lovers on the run, justice, loneliness, mafia, visceral, train, female nudity, on the road, gangsters, male nudity, great depression ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 80s, 70s, 1920s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, illinois, memphis, arkansas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
police officer, fugitives, prison, criminal, love triangle, chase, criminal heroes, escapades, on the road, relationships, love, bittersweet ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa
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71%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style:
neo noir, cynical, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
heist, gangsters, bank robbery, criminal, betrayal, bartender, ice hockey, mafia, gang, city, paranoia, organized crime ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future. Frank T. Wells, a newly-released ex-con looking for a few acres of freedom on the rodeo circuit. Scarlett Stuart, a wild beautiful woman on the run from a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot:
brother sister incest, prison, rodeo, on the run, bank, renegade, criminal heroes, going straight, dishonesty, misfit, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot:
prison, warden, bank robbery, murder, friendship, dishonesty, going straight, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, ex convict, betrayal, jail ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, usa
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63%
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic ...
Style:
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Plot:
couples, dishonesty, love and romance, cons and scams, student life, destructive relationship, college, lie, dancing, police, friend, secret ...
Place:
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60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
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Plot:
lovers on the run, murder, scam, hotel room, sex crime, hotel, on the road, road trip, nuclear testing, life is a bitch, on the run, social misfits ...
Time:
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Place:
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60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jack is now out of jail and he meets Nick, his adolescent son. Their relationship will be complicated, because Jack has a problem with alcohol. But his love for Nick will help him to get over the past and reach his dreams.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
father son relationship, adaptation, complex characters, starting over, prison, going straight, estrangement, family relations, prisoner, human nature, society, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bonnie Parker is estranged from her husband while still only just barely eighteen. Clyde Barrow, a handsome charmer who is in love with Bonnie, is a small-time thief, 'borrowing' cars to teach Bonnie to drive. He falls in with WD Jones, ...
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfriend, Rooney, and a lack of respect from her classmates. This all changes when a pen-pal school project connects her with convict Howard. Anita ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, erotic, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
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Audience:
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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neo noir, serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female ...
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serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
prison, escape, on the run, murder, kids in trouble, crime gone awry, lovers on the run, juvenile delinquency, society, law enforcement, love and romance, drug dealing ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a run-in with the law, an angry maladjusted young man starts calling himself "Hate". One night he saves a girl from a lusty Assistant District Attorney. He falsely accuses them of robbery, so they go on the run and make things worse.
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Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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