Movies like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
32K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style:
road movie, humorous, action thriller, exciting, light, captivating, buddy comedy, black comedy, spiritual, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, heist, chase, on the road, treasure hunt, buddies, car chase, friendship between men, robbery, bank robbery, home invasion, preacher, hidden money, rivalry, escapades, partner, road trip, drifter, crime gone awry, car, violence, female nudity, gunfight, homosexual subtext, prostitute ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place:
montana, usa
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Most similar movies to Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, entertaining and semi serious films with plots about chase, car chase, dialogue, runaway, partner, gunfight and culture clash mostly in Action, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot: Pink Cadillac (1989), Downtown (1990), Bird on a Wire (1990), Bandits (2001), The Gauntlet (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Clint Eastwood plays a bounty hunter who helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, talky, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
on the road, kidnapping, bail bondsman, bounty hunter, car chase, on the run, baby, tough guy, money, shootout, machine gun, disguise ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
sacramento california, usa, california, las vegas, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get even with the policeman. Soon, Kearney learns that he is off the cushy suburban beat and must now ...
Style:
detective, retro, action comedy, fast, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
male nudity, buddy cop, ghetto, street gang, police, law enforcement, arrest, police partner, police shootout, gangster, public nudity, urban ...
Time:
80s
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Style:
road movie, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
chase, false identity, tiger, corruption, justice, on the run, motorcycle, happy ending, woman in jeopardy, shootout, argument, framed for murder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
usa, atlantic city new jersey, new york, detroit, wisconsin ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Style:
road movie, humorous, funny, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
treasure hunt, on the road, race, car chase, treasure, road trip, competition, chase, greed, money, twists and turns, disorder ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1916, 70s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
74K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
heist, robbery, prison, friendship, bank robbery, bored housewife, on the run, stockholm syndrome, hostage, caper, home invasion, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, california, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness named Gus Mally from Vegas. Mally turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties and incriminating information regarding a ...
Style:
exciting, road movie, suspense, entertaining, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, hitman, tough cop, motorcycle, biker, police officer, police corruption, organized crime, on the road, attempted rape, ambush, corrupt official ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
las vegas, phoenix arizona, arizona, usa, san francisco ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's ...
Style:
road movie, funny, visually stunning, dark comedy, epic ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
prison escape, great depression, blues, on the run, small town, roman empire, country music, dark humor, music, runaway, satire, treasure hunt ...
Time:
1930s, year 2000, 20th century, y2k, 2000s ...
Place:
mississippi, ancient greece, persia, america, greece ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang ...
Style:
parody, black comedy, humorous, independent film, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, lost in the woods, on the run, bank, heist, robbery, caper, sheriff, sabotage, river, law enforcement, chase ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
montana, new jersey, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first ...
Style:
road movie, touching, funny, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, life philosophy, escapades, last wish, friends, odd couple, on the run, gangster, life is a bitch, partner, chase ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A ...
Style:
humorous, cult classic, entertaining, exciting, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, biker, tough guy, farce, abduction, orangutan, motorcycle gang, fight, machismo, feud, vendetta, wager ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, new jersey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of ...
Style:
detective, black comedy, fast, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
culture clash, fish out of water, car chase, violence, assassin, gunfight, kidnapping, chase, gangster, buddy cop, police investigation, reluctant partners ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
chicago, london, england, scotland, big ben london ...
Similarity:
31%
30K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
hostage, revenge, chase, violence, police officer, hostage negotiator, bank robber, negotiation, murder, sniper, swat team, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
tahiti, san francisco, usa, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, ...
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, friendship, hostage, hotel, prison, extramarital affair, released from prison, naked man, on the road, infidelity, hooligan ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
Similarity:
30%
92K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Style:
exciting, funny, neo noir, humorous, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly, adult
Plot:
buddy cop, prison, tough cop, revenge, reluctant partners, cop, partner, villain, tough guy, police investigation, police officer killed, buddy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, north america, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
96K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, ...
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
car, taxi, car chase, chase, driver, chases and races, unlikely friendships, taxi driver, heist, buddy, french president, incompetent police ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, marseille, europe, provence, paris france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares; his foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
Style:
melancholic, suspense, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train robbery, subway, train, new year's eve, bank robbery, arson, happy ending, new year, perfect crime, tough girl, buddy cop, caper ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a ...
Style:
suspense, entertaining, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
chase, police investigation, pitbull, buddy cop, reluctant partners, buddy, car, car chase, buddies, partner, danger, hostage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
Style:
black comedy, action comedy, neo noir, fast, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, buddy cop, buddy, police, hitman, law enforcement, mobster, car crash, police chase, police station, transvestite, police lieutenant ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, detroit
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
orangutan, road trip, revenge, farce, one against many, boxing, on the road, motel, motorcycle, monkey, beer, singer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s, 80s
Place:
california, colorado, new mexico, los angeles, san francisco
Similarity:
29%
236K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Style:
buddy comedy, action comedy, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
undercover, working undercover, money, cia, corruption, hidden identity, heist, organized crime, buddy, betrayal, partner, partners against crime ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, south america, mexico, california, seattle
Similarity:
29%
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, light hearted ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
buddies, friendship, buddy, drug lord, betrayal, buddy cop, justice, unlikely friendships, adaptation, criminal heroes, working undercover, hidden identity ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
arizona, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Style:
sexy, road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
exploitation, woman with a gun, nudity, gangster, crime spree, violence, car chase, kidnapping, male nudity, outlaw, love, car ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
california, texas, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
cowboy, friendship, chase, gunfight, horse, missing person, outlaw gang, happy ending, buddy, odd couple, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, arizona, new mexico, latin america, usa ...
Similarity:
28%
Movie in collections
54K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers as they make their rounds on the freeways of Los Angeles.
Style:
buddy comedy, entertaining, humorous, intense, funny ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police, buddy cop, motorcycle, heist, partner, investigation, chase, corruption, motorcycle cop, swimming pool, female nudity, car chase ...
Time:
future, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
los angeles, california, florida, miami
Similarity:
28%
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 ...
Style:
road movie, controversial, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
lovers on the run, on the run, heist, bank robbery, fugitives, gang, true crime, bank robber, shootout, great depression, love and romance, crime spree ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
texas, oklahoma, missouri, midwest, usa ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that ...
Style:
road movie, black comedy, witty, humorous, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, on the run, love, friendship between men, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, prison, gangster, heist, loser, sibling relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to ...
Style:
funny, exciting, humorous, action comedy, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
heist, robbery, african american, law enforcement, farce, criminal, happy ending, impersonating a police officer, bank robbery, safecracker, police station, dumb ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, latin america, mexico ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the ...
Style:
road movie, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, intense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
car chase, chase, car thief, driving, car theft, car, police investigation, disguise, police chase, ambush, car crash, carsploitation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, long beach california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defence lawyer in their new careers... as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, not serious, exciting, parody ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
corruption, heist, gunfight, ex cop, female bodybuilder, security guard, guard dog, friendship, justice, on the run, nothing goes right, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, los angeles, california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The Charismatic black nationalist leader Rev Deke O'Malley is trying to sell the people of Harlem a dream. Invest $100 in his company and live in Africa. But cops Gravedigger and Coffin know all about Deke and his fraudulent schemes that take ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, investigation, police investigation, odd couple, master criminal, partners against crime, dishonesty, law enforcement, buddies, tough law enforcer, partner, racial slur ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, africa
Similarity:
27%
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