Movies like Robbery Under Arms

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Robbery Under Arms (1985)
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Robbery Under Arms (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight.
Style: realistic, semi serious, costume drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, heroes, countryside, family relations, family life, rivalry, danger, folk hero, criminal heroes, thief, terrorist, criminal, terrorism, myth, legend, adventurer, robbery, legendary hero, western hero, rural setting, australian western, adventure, crimes, hold up
Time: future, 19th century, 80s
Place: australia, south australia

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Most similar movies to Robbery Under Arms

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, exciting, suspenseful and semi serious films with plots about rivalry, criminal heroes, heist, dishonesty, heroes, danger and chase mostly in Drama, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Robbery Under Arms: The Postcard Bandit (2003), Ned Kelly (2003), Plunkett & Macleane (1999), White Fang to the Rescue (1975), The Sewers of Paradise (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Postcard Bandit (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postcards to authorities hot on his trail while on the run across the country.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robber, on the run, chase, rivalry, dishonesty, law enforcement, gangster, investigation, danger, escapades, massage, bank robbery ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.4
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Ned Kelly (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: Australia, UK, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from ...
Style: romantic, captivating, factual, sincere, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: folk hero, biopic, injustice, gang, bank robbery, wilderness, resistance, lawlessness, revenge, false accusation, life is a bitch, ambition ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: australia, oceania, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how ...
Style: period piece, exciting, entertaining, witty, colorful ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: heist, partner, love triangle, unlikely criminals, buddies, criminal heroes, dishonesty, rivalry, revenge, swashbuckler, vengeance, robbery ...
Time: 18th century, year 1999, georgian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
White Fang to the Rescue (1975)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.
Style: exciting, realistic, semi serious, spaghetti western
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, kidnapping, animal life, friends, friendship, wilderness, old west, heroes, rescue, rivalry, escapades, danger ...
Time: 19th century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Sewers of Paradise (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, robbery, bank, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, chases and races, master criminal, shop owner, planning, tunnel ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Style: period piece, mockbuster, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, outlaw, exploitation, british empire, manhunt, unhappy ending, on the run, chase, toxic, gang, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1860s, year 1865, 1850s ...
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 5.2
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The Jackals (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: South Africa
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bandits target a gold miner and his granddaughter in 19th century South Africa. Robert Gunnar is the bandit with a heart of gold, who is after Price's cache of gold, but falls in love with Diana Ivarson, who has hair of gold (bleach).
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, terrorism, adventurer, heroes, danger, gang, escapades, wilderness, heist, love, family relations, ghost town ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.0
 82
Dead Easy (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results in their being hunted by every thug and killer in town.
Style: fast, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, mafia, disco, urban setting, on the run, urban, city life, heist, chase, chases and races, unlikely partners, prostitute ...
Time: 80s
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 6.5
 192
Where's Jack? (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: folk hero, betrayal, escape, highwayman, biopic, vengeance, on the run, chases and races, criminal heroes, rivalry, heroes, fugitives ...
Time: 18th century, year 1969, 60s
Place: london, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Delta Factor (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cia, prison, island, kidnapping, rescue, special agent, injustice, righting the wronged, captivity, wrongfully committed, heist ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Newton Boys (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous ...
Style: cult classic, historical drama, anamorphic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: robbery, bank robber, brothers, gangster, heist, bank robbery, brother brother relationship, crime spree, mobster, bank, criminal, mafia ...
Time: year 1998, 1920s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: texas, austin texas, canada, usa, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.3
 1K
Down Twisted (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Maxine (Cary Lowell) is a waitress with big dreams who inadvertently gets mixed up with a gang of smugglers who are trying to get their hands on a stolen artefact called 'The Crucible Of San Lucas'.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, fast, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cannon, killer, waitress, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal heroes, betrayal, danger, on the run, disorder, woman in danger, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: los angeles, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.7
 210
Outback (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Bergen. Our hero must not only contend with his ...
Style: independent film, saga, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: love triangle, stallion, friends, farm, love and romance, rivalry, danger, rescue, wooing, wilderness, fistfight, ferry ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Adventurers (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The world's top thieves join forces to pull off the heist of a lifetime. But when they find themselves pursued across Europe by a legendary French detective, they'll have to take their game to the next level.
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police officer, robbery, heist, police investigation, chase, friends, thief, partner, prison, dishonesty, criminal heroes, cons and scams ...
Time: year 2017
Place: china, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Dead in 5 Heartbeats (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: motorcycle race, gang, rivalry, betrayal, vengeance, biker, social relations, motorcycle chase, dishonesty, tough heroes, bike, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Day Hollywood Died (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: He just woke up. He's in a hospital. He can't move. He can't remember who he is. Memories begin to flood back to him as he regains consciousness. He was part of a heist gone wrong. One of a crew of six asked to steal a briefcase from ...
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: heist, bank, coma, gang, death, plan gone wrong, memories, heroes, society, heist gone wrong, flashback sequence, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Mark of Zorro (1974)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zorro, superhero, swashbuckler, sword fight, peplum, fencing, renaissance, good versus evil, secret identity, heroes, vigilantism, swordsman ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: california, usa, madrid, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.7
 571
Sinful Davey (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, on the run, chase, redemption, starting over, disorder, love, father, friendship, partner, bare breasts, murder ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, regency period
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Bandit vs. Samurai Squad (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: martial arts, clan, religions or cults, cons and scams, heist, dishonesty, heroes, rivalry, vengeance, betrayal, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Space Travelers (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, crime gone awry, disorder, rivalry, heroes, danger, cons and scams, heist, obsession, stockholm syndrome, heist gone wrong, burglar ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Archer (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: horse, race against time, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, chases and races, survival, escapades, friends, on the road, wilderness, horse race ...
Time: 19th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Swords of Blood (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: adventurer, outlaw, righting the wronged, folk hero, criminal heroes, gang, against the odds, criminal, crime boss, outlaw gang, traveler, soldier ...
Time: 18th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.9
 3K
The Crew (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, dishonesty, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, gangster, brother brother relationship, lesbian, organized crime, british gangster, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Quick and the Dead (1987)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel (Tom Conti and Kate Capshaw), newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian (Sam Elliot) is the only hope.From the book by famed Western author ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family life, wilderness, criminal heroes, danger, mysterious character, gangster, justice, gunfight, modern west, shootout, modern western, showdown ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
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Why Me? (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, absurd ...
Plot: on the run, partner, danger, rivalry, disorder, cons and scams, heist, ruby, pursuit, chase, jewel thief, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.6
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Fool N Final (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous
Plot: gang, disorder, danger, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, cons and scams, chases and races, goofy hero, gangster, diamond theft, bookies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.4
 954
My West (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife, and half-breed son is interrupted when the boy's old gunslinger father returns. They are not happy with his return despite the old gunslinger's intention to retire. Things ...
Style: spaghetti western, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: old west, family relations, uninvited guest, small town life, interracial relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, small town, criminal heroes, lone wolves, danger, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.4
 4K
The Furnace (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gold, life is a bitch, gold rush, adaptation, life, friendship, politics, corruption, survival, camel, australian outback, bullet wound ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Return to Snowy River (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison (Sigrid Thornton), Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, independent film
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: horse, treasure hunt, love and romance, chase, wilderness, treasure hunter, peace, prairie, ranch, rancher, horse riding, love triangle ...
Time: 19th century, 80s, 1890s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.9
 570
Air Marshal (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commercial jet plane has been hijacked by a group of terrorists who don't realize that a U.S. Air Marshal, Brett Prescott (Dean Cochran), is among the passengers. The fate of dozens of people lies in the hands of Prescott, who must forge a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, airplane, terrorism, danger, heroes, strong violent content, aviation, hijacker, terrorist, muslim, die hard, pilot ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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