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Maximum Breakout (1991)
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Vacationing lovers Travis and Bobbi encounter an unexpected nightmare on a lonely country road. Two strangers kidnap Bobbi, and brutally beat Travis. Six months later, though Bobbi's family is wealthy, there's no ransom demand, and the police, even Travis's boss, Detective Wyatt, have all but given up. Only Travis, encouraged by Bobbi's best friend Debbie, keeps searching for Bobbi. Travis teams up with Debbie's brother Reb, who assembles a team to rescue Bobbi. Other than Travis and Reb, the team consists of the Professor, a computer nerd who likes to blow things up, Loch, a gun-crazy nut case, and a stuntman named Suicide. Together, they track Bobbi to an isolated ranch where blond, blue-eyed women are forced to bear children who are sold to desperate couples by a man named Frank and his boss, an icy woman with a Southern accent. Now Travis and the team must plan a way to infiltrate the ranch and rescue Bobbi and the other women.
Style:
brutal, suspense, detective, southern gothic, noir, splatter, independent film
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, human trafficking, rescue mission, revenge, violent, vigilante justice, male protagonist, determination, female exploitation, friendship, explosions, trick, exploitation, computer nerd, moral ambiguity, sex, slavery, pregnancy, male nudity, captive, shootout, nudity, bare chested male, rape ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, independent film and dark films with plots about revenge, moral ambiguity, violent, rescue mission, kidnapping, urban and corruption mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Maximum Breakout: Commando Squad (1987), Cage II (1994), Blood Circus (2017), Bravo (1998), Junior (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.
Style:
action packed, suspenseful, suspense, retro, action adventure ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
mexico
Similarity:
95%
405
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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57
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
grim, brutal, intense, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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621
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, suspense, fast paced, road movie, noir ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
61%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
action packed, period piece, grim, grindhouse, anamorphic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
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Similarity:
61%
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
57%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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178
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
54%
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, intense, dark, grindhouse, road movie ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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