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Kitten with a Whip (1964)
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Kitten with a Whip (1964)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jody, a juvenile delinquent, escapes from reform school by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn down the building and then takes refuge in a house owned by an ambitious politician David Patton. Despite the hellcat's ample charms, the would-be officeholder wants nothing to do with her and tries to drive her away. She responds by shortly returning to his house accompanied by a gang of delinquent pals and taking him hostage. A sudden act of violence causes more trouble, leading Jody and her gang to hijack David and force him to drive a getaway car to Mexico.
Style: political, campy, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquent, strong female lead, nymphet, kidnapping, hospital, femme fatale, juvenile delinquency, school, gang, youth, hostage, fugitives, best friends, on the run, haunted by the past, crime gone awry, violence spree, teenager, prison escape, party, camp, fire, teenage girl, politician, lolita ...
Time: 60s
Place: mexico, usa, latin america, tijuana mexico

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Most similar movies to Kitten with a Whip

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about chases and races, deadly, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, on the run and gangsters mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Kitten with a Whip: The Escapist (2002), The Outside Man (1972), Backflash (2001), Ready 2 Die (2014), Dead Silence (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Escapist (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, prison, violence spree, vengeance, confined, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, tough heroes, gang, heroes, revenge ...
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95%
The Outside Man (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangsters, law enforcement, fish out of water, criminal heroes, dishonesty, culture clash, disorder, tough heroes, organized crime, hitman, spy, killer ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, paris france, usa, california, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Backflash (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, cons and scams, crime gone awry, on the run, odd couple, suspense, murder, criminal's revenge, partners, rivalry, heist, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, gang, murder, dishonesty, heist, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, gangsters ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Dead Silence (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Three escaped convicts take a group of deaf students hostage but their teacher is Marlee Matlin!
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: asthma, deaf, kidnapping, kidnapped, hostage, rescue, on the run, bus, mute or deaf, confined, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, pennsylvania, new york state, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Wild Youth (1960)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A teenage escapee from a correctional facility falls in with a drug dealer operating near the Mexican border.
Style: sexy, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquent, drugs, escape, farm, stoners, kids in trouble, disorder, criminal heroes, drug dealing, youth, society, rivalry ...
Time: 50s
Place: mexico, latin america, new mexico, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Road Killers (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witnessing a crime, psychopath, gang, kidnapping, woman in danger, serial killer, missing person, rescue, family in danger, hostage, father son relationship, road trip ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Living & Dying (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, heist, crime gone awry, hitman, tough heroes, disorder, criminal heroes, law enforcement, on the run, unlikely criminals, master criminal, woman with a gun ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the run, wrongful conviction, manhunt, chase, injustice, gang, family relations, faithfulness, u.s. mexico border, father son relationship, police officer, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa, mexico, alabama, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two kidnappers snatch a girl off the streets and imprison her in a remote beach house.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, criminal, hell, psychopath, murder, cafe, airport, chase, crime gone awry, seaside, ransom, child in peril ...
Time: 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangsters, criminal, on the run, dishonesty, disorder, master criminal, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, cons and scams, violence, mafia, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Hell's Bloody Devils (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of ...
Style: campy, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, motorcycle, gunfight, strong female lead, helicopter, desert, undercover, nazi, vampire, law enforcement, special agents, gang ...
Time: 60s
Place: california, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Betrayal (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, parody
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, on the run, police investigation, dishonesty, hitman, tough heroes, law enforcement, criminal heroes, single parent, master criminal, femme fatale, kidnapping ...
Place: usa, texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Hand Gun (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female psychopath, heist, power relations, estrangement, family relations, disorder, siblings relations, riddles and clues, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, on the run, treasure hunt ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Race Against Time (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the bills. However, when he is advised that the doctors want to claim his organs immediately, he ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hospital, on the run, rivalry, chase, race against time, fugitives, self sacrifice, father son relationship, suspense, terminator, organ transplant, future dystopia ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Tell (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: life turned upside down, rivalry, going straight, on the run, dishonesty, sexual content, graphic violence, criminal heroes, money, heist, danger, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Young Savages (1961)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Style: tense, cynical, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: street gang, racism, gang, juvenile delinquent, murder trial, courtroom, lawyer, serial killer, murder, district attorney, class differences, power relations ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Cat Burglar (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, cat burglar, burglar, heroes, dishonesty, undercover, crime gone awry, on the run, heist, concentration camp, gunfight ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Corrupt (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangsters, gang, hip hop, hip hop culture, urban setting, urban ghetto, drug dealing, life is a bitch, social misfits, criminal heroes, youth, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Dead in a Heartbeat (2002)
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time to track down a disturbed bomber who is inexplicably causing Dr. Hayes' patients to explode.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: race against time, vengeance, doctors and patients, law enforcement, mentally unstable, rivalry, murder investigation, bomb, serial killer, mysticism, medical, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Hot Rods to Hell (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury which results in him not being able to continue with his current business. The Phillips' buy a ...
Style: serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, desert, christmas, car, motel, rock music, speed, beach, surfing, on the road, teenager, drag racing ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangsters, heist, betrayal, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, gang, dishonesty, brother brother relationship, organized crime, lesbian, mafia, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 325
Detour (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir
Plot: on the run, warehouse, mob boss, law enforcement, rivalry, vengeance, gang, dishonesty, criminal heroes, going straight, gangsters, crime gone awry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Harold Robbins' Body Parts (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from the city's new Mainland government, he ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, on the run, cons and scams, track down, vengeance, betrayal, drug dealing, criminal heroes, rivalry, prison, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Place: hong kong, the philippines, california, asia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Walking the Edge (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangsters, taxi, auto mechanic, taxi driver, teenager, woman with a gun, gang, vengeance, murder, crime gone awry, tough law enforcer, investigation ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Strangers in 7A (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife (Ida Lupino) are held ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: hostage, disorder, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, stalking, dishonesty, gangsters, unlikely criminals, confined, kidnapping, destiny, cons and scams ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Back in the Day (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, neo noir
Plot: murder, gang, racism, introspection, vengeance, criminal heroes, fall in love, police corruption, crime gone awry, dishonesty, starting over, moral dilemma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Body Count (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, art theft, murder, gangsters, on the road, cons and scams, on the run, partners, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, misfit partners ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Guilty by Association (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: There is no honor without truth. When gang wars spin out of control in downtown Washington D.C., one man steps onto the battlefirld to hunt down a ruthless killer. A young man has been released from prison and is determined to build a new life for ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, friendship, criminal heroes, partners, police investigation, law enforcement, gang, dishonesty, reluctant partners, battles, drug dealing, redemption ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Machine Gun McCain (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, gangsters, casino, on the run, gang, politics, crime gone awry, prison, rivalry, betrayal, criminal heroes, gambling ...
Time: 60s
Place: las vegas, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%