Movies like Running Scared 1980

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Running Scared (1980)
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Running Scared (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.
Style: suspenseful, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, parody, funny, sexy, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot: spy, military, chase, army, escape, cold war, swamp, manhunt, us military, heroes, soldier, undercover, espionage, chases and races, escapades, danger, military life, stowaway, homecoming, prospector, agent, aviation, water, weapons, photograph ...
Time: 60s, 80s, 1960s
Place: florida, usa, cuba, california
Keyword: gangsters, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to Running Scared

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films with plots about danger, heroes, chases and races, escapades, military, rivalry and chase mostly in Action, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Running Scared: Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (1981), Breakout (1975), Runaway Car (1997), Dead Men Can't Dance (1997), Target of Opportunity (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, escapades, obsessive quest, airplane, adventurer, survival, chase, danger, aviation, wilderness, woman with a gun, female nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new zealand
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95%
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Breakout (1975)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bush pilot is hired for $250,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Style: light, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, false accusation, chase, fugitives, manhunt, danger, rescue, prison life, captivity, helicopter, murder, warden ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.1
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Runaway Car (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready yet, so the nurse offers him a ride. Before leaving the man, they pick up the nurse's baby ...
Style: road movie, fast, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: car, chase, car chase, on the road, on the run, chases and races, danger, programmer, automobile, helicopter, police, nurse ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. Everything does not go as planned. Their communications are cut off and they must remember their ...
Style: independent film, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: violent content, danger, military, escapades, heroic mission, undercover, chases and races, heroes, daring rescue, female nudity, shootout, sergeant ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, korea, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Target of Opportunity (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, friendship, rescue, escapades, dishonesty, danger, political intrigue, spy, conflict, secret agent, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria, europe, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Iris: The Movie (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, rivalry, espionage, special agent, danger, assassination, political conspiracy, spy, true love, confrontation, state affairs, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Escape from Zahrain (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot ...
Style: retro, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: revolutionary, trucker, exotic locale, fictional country, truck, arab, desert, tough heroes, revolution, military, fugitives, state affairs ...
Time: 60s
Place: africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Code Red (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psychologically disturbed solider is forced to come out of retirement to find his brother who has disappeared in the jungle but nothing can prepare him for the alien nightmare he is plunged into.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: alien encounter, soldier, rescue, missing person, danger, military, escapades, government coverup, secret base, alien, space, future war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Warriors (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A government-trained killing machine must turn his lethal skills against his top-secret squad's AWOL leader
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: top secret, terrorism, awol, soldier, battles, on the run, rivalry, chase, heroes, prostitute, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Mirror Wars: Reflection One (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Mirror Wars: Reflection One is a post-cold-war thriller from the Russian point of view. Bad-guy British arms dealer Murdock (Malcolm McDowell) and numerous mercenaries and clandestine agents tries to steal a new Russian stealth fighter. Murdock is ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, secret agent, military, daring rescue, save the day, betrayal, escapades, danger, rivalry, arms dealing, heroic mission, aerial combat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, london, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, soldier, military, heroic mission, martial arts, commando mission, danger, heroes, daring rescue, master warrior, betrayal, military base ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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White Ghost (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.
Style: retro, independent film, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, jungle, rescue, jungle adventure, daring rescue, heroes, master warrior, escapades, military, chase, danger, soldier ...
Time: 80s
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
King of Africa (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell."
Style: independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: escaped killer, wasteland, gang, manhunt, wilderness, escape, hostage, rescue, heroes, chase, kidnapping, on the run ...
Time: 60s, 1900s
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Soldier of Fortune, Inc. was a television show created by Dan Gordon which ran for two seasons, from 1997–1999 The show was about an elite team who performed "unofficial" missions for the US Government. During the first season, the ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ex soldier, spy, mission, military, tough heroes, soldier, fighting crime, escapades, partners against crime, heroes, danger, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Rescue (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A team of Navy Seals are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the "wrong" hands. They complete their mission, but are captured before they can return to their base. The U.S. Government will not mount a rescue ...
Style: serious, bleak, independent film
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: rescue, survival, kidnapping, espionage, coming of age, hostage, save the day, chases and races, military, heroes, soldier, confined ...
Time: 80s
Place: north korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Mercenaries (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Andy Marlow, an ex British S.A.S serviceman turned mercenary, is sent into the Balkans after a military coup has arisen to rescue a U.S ambassador and his aide.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Plot: military coup, military, danger, daring rescue, undercover, escapades, murder, coup, genocide, cavalry, ethnic cleansing, coup d'etat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: balkan, serbia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Airplane vs Volcano (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, airplane, save the day, danger, survival, heroes, spouse in danger, forces of nature, air disaster, military, volcano, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team ...
Style: serious, bleak, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: arab israeli conflict, politics, military, uninhibited rivalry, violence spree, soldier, vengeance, state affairs, political unrest, murder, death, conflict ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, turkey, palestinian authority
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pensacola: Wings of Gold is a syndicated American action/adventure drama series based at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.
Style: rough, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: marines, soldier, military, basic training, tough heroes, reluctant partners, military life, power relations, aviation, heroes, officers and cadets, special forces ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former ...
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, perverse, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, ninja, martial arts, danger, rivalry, superhuman powers, heroic mission, medieval, battles, military, good versus evil, chase ...
Place: japan, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
34%
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, undercover, rescue, state affairs, chases and races, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Five Minarets in New York (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", believed to be hiding in there. Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, chase, life is a bitch, racism, muslim, police investigation, danger, couple relations, dishonesty, law enforcement, society, smuggling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Sweepers (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola. His son is killed and he discovers that mines are being planted during the war to kill people in the ...
Style: cliffhanger, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, die hard, espionage, vengeance, chases and races, race against time, escapades, save the day, rescue, danger, undercover, heroic mission ...
Time: 90s
Place: angola
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Fast Lane (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A high-speed accident on the freeways of Los Angeles reveals a turf war between two competing car theft rings of sexy all-girl crews. Brandy Martinez, a young streetwise cop is assigned by lieutenant Baynes (Steven Bauer) to go undercover and ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, gang, working undercover, chases and races, car chase, danger, partner, love and romance, car, woman with a gun, car race, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Atlas (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.
Style: psychotronic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: peplum, superhero, gladiator, battles, escapades, rivalry, military, danger, heroes, soldier, betrayal, state affairs ...
Time: year 1961
Place: greece, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Fanfare for a Death Scene (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, espionage, jazz, race against time, undercover, chase, state affairs, danger, chases and races, missing person, special agent, scientist ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.9
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Firefox (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox". Naturally, the British are worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon, as rumours say that the jet is indetectable on radar. They send ex-Vietnam ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, fighter plane, behind enemy lines, espionage, chase, submarine, fighter pilot, fighter jet, aviation, aerial combat, military ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, england, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Defense Play (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed, Colonel Denton gets under suspicion. His son Scott and Vandemeers daughter Karen believe in his ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: computer, anti hero, danger, undercover, chases and races, espionage, heroes, teenage life, computers and web, nudity, violent content, russian spy ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Air Collision (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, save the day, survival, danger, aviation, disorder, escapades, confined, disaster, aeroplane, army, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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