Movies like One More Chance 1981
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One More Chance (1981)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An ex-convict, after spending six years in prison, tries to re-establish a relationship with the son he hasn't seen in all that time.
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, student film
Plot:
friendship, kidnapping, missing person, confined, cons and scams, father son relationship, ex convict, adventure, crimes
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about confined, kidnapping, danger, deadly, rivalry, missing person and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like One More Chance: Baby Sellers (2013), Have You Seen My Son (1996), Martin's Day (1985), The Hot Potato (2012), End Game (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, couple relations, parents and children, obsessive quest, confined, family relations, family problems, child custody, ex husband ex wife relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, oregon, latin america
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72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough
Plot:
coming of age, youth, kidnapping, escape, hostage, ocean, friends, obsessive quest, confined, manhunt, fugitives, friendship ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The 'Hot Potato' is an exciting new British period ‘caper movie’, in the spirit of ‘The Italian Job’ and ‘Two Way Stretch’ and is based on real events which took place at the end of the 1960s in London’s East End.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
road trip, heist, nuclear threat, hitman, criminal heroes, chase, dishonesty, twists and turns, car chase, cons and scams, gangsters, uranium ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
europe, london, england, belgium, vatican
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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330
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Vicious criminal Brad Mayfield takes pleasure in kidnapping, assault and murder. It is up to Officer Dan Burk to stop his lust for blood. The stakes of the game quickly rise when Burk becomes romantically involved with a beautiful woman who happens ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, mentally unstable, rivalry, psychopath, confined, law enforcement, missing person, kidnapping, graphic violence, murder, clown, martial arts ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue mission is sent after them, but they manage to escape and join up with a mercenary fighting the terrorists.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, woman with a gun, kidnapping, missing person, heroic mission, friendship, basic training, political unrest, on the road, college, jungle, officers and cadets ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
central america, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two elderly criminals spend their final night in Los Angeles, California at the Golden Eagle Hotel prior to their departure to Las Vegas, Nevada, to lead a life without crime. Unfortunately, on the hottest night of the summer, these two ex-criminals ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
prostitute, hotel, murder, going straight, criminal heroes, heist, cons and scams, best friends, partners, disposing of a dead body, released from prison, ex convict ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot:
prison, power relations, gender, battle of the sexes, confined, prison life, chaos and mayhem, female warden, prisoner, women's prison
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
secret agents, espionage, jazz, chase, special agents, state affairs, race against time, undercover, missing person, bondage, scientist, secret formula ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The kidnapping 77-year-old man in Argentina forces his daughter to return to Buenos Aires after years of exile abroad.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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:
exciting, realistic, serious, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A teenager who is obsessed with gangster movies believes himself to be a real gangster after his father is murdered.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
italian mafia, gangsters, murder, kidnapping, rescue, graphic violence, nude, hitman, mafia, drugs, danger, deadly
Time:
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Place:
sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ex-con Neal Skinner (Pierce Brosnan) seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens (Tom Skerritt) for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Charismatic thief Bobby Comfort escapes from prison, clears himself of all charges, and returns to a home life he finds unsatisfying. Though he is devoted to his wife and daughter, his old life comes calling, both figuratively and literally, in the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
heist, gang, criminal heroes, cons and scams, law enforcement, dishonesty, jail, prison, hotel, disorder, jewel theft, jewel thief ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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399
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After some personal trauma, Wilson Walmsley is invited to work as a substitute teacher in a suburban public high school. He finds lack of authority and interest in the school direction and teacher body; uncontrolled and abusive students in an ...
Style:
serious, realistic, biting, cynical, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 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: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without paroll, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy, rough
Plot:
prison, criminal heroes, follow your dream, prison escape, prison life, redemption, optimism, hopes, artists and showbiz, confined, lifestyle, journalism ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two ...
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Audience:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their ...
Style:
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Plot:
missing person, missing son, survival, grief, family relations, college, kidnapping, siblings relations, school, teenage life, investigation, private detective ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A police captain (Aldo Ray) is caught between businesses operating on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip who don't like the punks hanging out, and his belief in allowing the kids their rights. But when his daughter (Mimsy Farmer) gets involved with ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
kidnapping, survival, rescue, missing person, confined, rape, showdown, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, kidnapped, teen social issues, age difference, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
L.A. private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of an alluring woman's brother. Surrounded by double-crossing deals and dangerous relation, Rybeck will have to plunge headfirst into his deadliest case ever.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
heist, chase, investigation, suspense, escapades, private investigator, disappearance, dishonesty, infidelity, gunfight, deception, villain ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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