Movies like Lost in the Sun

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Lost in the Sun (2015)
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Lost in the Sun (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small time crook and a newly-orphaned teenage boy team up to perform a string of robberies.
Style: exciting, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful, road movie, independent film
Plot: teenage boy, road trip, robbery, ex convict, accomplice, man boy relationship, teenager, cross country, lost child, armed robbery, criminal, child in peril, father son estrangement, travel, heist, bag of money, on the lam, estranged son, boyhood, teenage girl, grandmother grandson relationship, father son reunion, gangster, boy, bank robbery ...
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about murder, robbery, violence, heist, pistol, death and police mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Lost in the Sun: Mean Dreams (2016), The Marksman (2021), Pistolera (2020), My Father Die (2016), Midnight Heat (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mean Dreams (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, young love, sheriff, murder, police corruption, abusive father, dirty cop, parent child relationship, illegal drugs, small town, runaway, teenage boy ...
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95%
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The Marksman (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He ...
Style: suspense, road movie, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: life is a bitch, u.s. mexico border, murder, mafia, boy, drug cartel, sheriff, desert, pistol, border, ranch, old man ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, mexico, arizona, iowa ...
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92%
 2.0
 439
Pistolera (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of ...
Style: exciting, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug lord, vengeance, murder, danger, gangster, death, battles, drug dealer, violence, society, obsession, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
My Father Die (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Deaf and mute since having his hearing knocked out at the age of 12, Asher has been training for almost two decades to avenge himself on Ivan, the man that killed his older brother, 21 years ago. And now that his nemesis is out of prison, he gets ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, ex convict, teenage boy, childhood memory, police detective, father son relationship, deafness, sign language, brother brother relationship, loss of brother, deaf man, brother ...
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 4.5
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Midnight Heat (1996)
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital, he has flashbacks which do not fit with his current life. After a strange telephone call and a murder attempt on his wife, ...
Style: independent film, exciting, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: bank, banker, amnesia, shootout, dishonesty, rivalry, vengeance, heist, murder, helicopter, prison escape, sex scene ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Survive the Night (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A disgraced doctor and his family are held hostage at their home by criminals on the run, when a robbery-gone-awry requires them to seek immediate medical attention.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, action thriller, perverse
Plot: home invasion, accidental killing, robbery, doctor, brother brother relationship, surgery, gas station, organized crime, rescue, danger, gunfight, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: small town, manhunt, chase, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.8
 19K
Kin (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young boy finds a powerful otherworldly weapon, which he uses to save his older adoptive brother from a crew of thugs. Before long, the two of them are also pursued by federal agents and mysterious mercenaries aiming to reclaim their asset.
Style: suspense, serious, social, ambiguous ending, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage boy, brother brother relationship, abusive parent, murder, brother, motel, teenager, coming of age, shooting, father son relationship, adopted son, released from prison ...
Time: 2010s
Place: nevada, las vegas, detroit, iowa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Hellion (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: motocross, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquent, father son relationship, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, dysfunctional family, social worker, death of mother, family relations, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.2
 66K
Takers (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse Attica (Chris Brown) successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, heist, armored car robbery, chase, robbery, one last job, gangster, caper, investigation, bank robber, undercover cop, fbi ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 77K
Triple 9 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, stylized, intense ...
Plot: heist, police corruption, murder, bank robbery, dirty cop, corrupt cop, mafia, violence, corruption, betrayal, strip club, gangster ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.7
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13 Minutes (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, bad weather, tornado, aftermath, destruction, rescue, race against time, family relations, hiding place, small town, survival ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.2
 12K
Sweet Virginia (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former rodeo champ befriends a young man with a propensity for violence.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: small town, robbery, murder, death, rodeo cowboy, breaking and entering, family business, stranger, friendship, psychopath, subculture, hired killer ...
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Edge of Winter (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: winter, wilderness, cold weather, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, mentally unstable, divorced parents, child in peril, snow, survival, parent child relationship, snowstorm ...
Place: ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A ruthless Columbian drug lord has been using a cold-blooded assassin nicknamed The Devil to wipe out his competition. Sensing a threat to the US, the DEA hires a Marine sniper to kill The Devil, and capture the kingpin.
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: sniper, mission, war on drugs, murderer, special agent, secret mission, pursuit, drug dealer, danger, undercover agent, drug lord, fighting crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 6K
The Show (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: tv host, suicide, game of death, life risking, television, most dangerous game, brother sister relationship, risk, death, mind game, murder, hacking ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.1
 32K
Heist (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.
Style: clever, light, tense, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: heist, caper, chase, car chase, police investigation, bank robbery, organized crime, hostage, corruption, twists and turns, crime gone awry, money ...
Time: 2010s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.7
 329
Baby Money (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a home invasion turns into a bloody shoot-out, a pair of ragtag fugitives take refuge in the house of a single mother as they wait on their fiery (and very pregnant) getaway driver to hatch an escape plan in time for a major payday.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: pregnant woman, single mother, escapades, problem, theft, robbery, gang, burglar, criminal, bandit, criminal gang, heist gone wrong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 7.0
 123K
Den of Thieves (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, bank robbery, police brutality, tough guy, strip club, shootout, armored truck, police, criminal, investigation, fbi, divorce ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, california, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 2K
Pups (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When troubled teen boy Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), attempt to rob a bank without any forethought, the situation rapidly deteriorates. Soon the young couple is holding bank customers and employees hostage, ...
Style: action thriller, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: robbery, teen rebel, hostage, bank, coming of age, fbi, children, heist, caper, serial killer, killer, junkie ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.7
 8K
The Doorman (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female protagonist, heroes, danger, safecracker, ak 47, gang, criminal, fistfight, rescue, combat, fight, rehabilitation ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york, bucharest, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.9
 8K
Dreamland (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Amid the dust storms and economic depression of Dust Bowl Era Oklahoma, Eugene Evans finds his family farm on the brink of foreclosure. Discovering fugitive bank robber Allison Wells hiding in his small town, he is torn between claiming the bounty ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, intense ...
Plot: bank robbery, teenager, bullet wound, woman with a gun, society, bankruptcy, escapades, heist, anxiety, criminal, notoriety, criminal heroes ...
Time: 2020s, year 1935
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.4
 60K
Live by Night (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Style: neo noir, stylized, period piece, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: organized crime, prohibition, chase, mafia, revenge, betrayal, criminal, friendship, murder, police, gangster, death ...
Time: 1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 1930s
Place: florida, boston, massachusetts, america, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Crew (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: It’s bad men versus worse men as thieves face off against dealers in this super slick French heist thriller from the director of Chrysalis and The Assault.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, brother brother relationship, bank robber, robbery, armed robbery, gang of thieves, violence, murder, death, criminal heroes, mafia ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 52
South of 8 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An ex-con trying to find work in a new Depression is lured back to a life of crime, but his gang passes the point of no return once they become fugitives.
Style: unusual plot structure, exciting, captivating, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, robbery, hostage, master criminal, young adult, prison, escape, police, violence, money, fight ...
Time: future, 2040s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.1
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London Heist (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Armed robber and career criminal Jack Cregan seeks to discover the truth behind his father's murder and his stolen heist money and in doing so puts his life in danger. The devastation that Jack soon discovers puts his very own existence into ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: criminal, revenge, gangster, police shootout, gang, murder, robbery, con artists, theft, fight, battles, stolen money ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.0
 18K
American Heist (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, heist, sibling relationship, crime gone awry, going straight, disorder, criminal heroes, hopes, haunted by the past, brother brother relationship, bank robber, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 9K
Undertow (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style: harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, murder, brutality, tragedy, homelessness, danger, lifestyle, parents and children, violence, boy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.3
 730
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: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, crime gone awry, cons and scams, on the run, odd couple, danger, gangster, partner, rivalry, on the road, criminal heroes, disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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