Movies like Hit and Run 1966

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Hit and Run (1966)
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Hit and Run (1966)
Original name: ひき逃げ
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother (Hideko Takamine) seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
Plot: revenge, chambermaid, car accident, class differences, witness, death of son, hit and run, grief, police interrogation, cheating wife, mother, house, double suicide
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, independent film and realistic films with plots about revenge, murder, witness, violence, death of son, female nudity and vengeance mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hit and Run: Flag in the Mist (1965), The Samurai That Night (2012), Proof of the Man (1977), Yearning (1964), Slayground (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Flag in the Mist (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately ...
Plot: courtroom, trial, murder, revenge, evidence, retribution, class differences, baseball player, witness, lawyer, flashback, french restaurant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Samurai That Night (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A widower sends daily reminders to the petty criminal who killed his wife in a traffic accident that on the anniversary of her death, he will kill him.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot: revenge, showdown, hit and run, car accident, death of wife, threat to kill, asian, ashes, diabetic, extortion, widow, prostitute ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Proof of the Man (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Style: neo noir
Plot: killer, police detective, police, fashion show, dying words, murder, witness, police investigation, elevator, multiple murder, straw hat, killed in a car accident
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56%
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Yearning (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
Plot: motorcycle, marriage, siblings, grief, family relations, widow, unrequited love, police station, love, telephone call, train, suicide ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Slayground (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the ...
Style: perverse, independent film, eighties
Plot: robbery, manslaughter, revenge, car accident, murder, machine gun, dead child, assassination, hitman, thief, cat, death of child ...
Time: future, year 1983
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Keiho (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code ...
Plot: courtroom, multiple personality disorder, murder suspect, actor, memory loss, child abuse, revenge, left handedness
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Sex Hunter: Wet Target (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story: While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko. Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities. Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes ...
Style: disturbing
Plot: rape, revenge, rape and revenge, witness, flashback, escape attempt, female nudity, death, prisoner, suicide, prostitute, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.7
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Lady Cocoa (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Foxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, black, urban, crooked cop, prison, hotel, revenge, female nudity, bare breasts, witness, gangster ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Apology (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-brother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.
Style: christmas horror, psychological thriller
Plot: christmas, revenge, xmas, holiday horror, captive, loss, grief, secret, cabin in the woods, snowstorm, hostage, rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.2
 55
Death Hunt (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to avenge her death by gorily killing them all one by one.
Style: detective, poliziottesco
Plot: buried alive, death of child, violence, rape, city, nudity, female pubic hair, persecution, male female relationship, showdown, kidnapping, port ...
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The investigating magistrate - in charge of the case with two commissioners - wants to believe to the version of the ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: female nudity, police arrest, police interrogation, father son conflict, father son relationship, attorney, police officer killed, morgue, student, accidental killing, crime investigation, political activism ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min.
Story: In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so ...
Style: detective, jidai geki
Plot: multiple murder, attempted rape, presumed dead, biological father, mother daughter relationship, adultery, revenge, suicide, woman, girl, scissors, set on fire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Winter's Flower (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Kanno (Ken Takakura) is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno ...
Style: epic, thrilling
Plot: yakuza, ex convict, betrayal, guardian, revenge motive, henchman, prison, revenge, correspondence, going straight
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Rabal is a blind, elderly leader of the Camorra whose son ends up dead as he attempts to rape Molina. Somebody has stuck the corpse strategically with a hypodermic needle, which is to become the signature of a series of killings of Naples drug ...
Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, cannon, investigation, drag queen, prostitution, female protagonist, heroin, revenge, love triangle, mother, murder, dead children ...
Time: year 1985
Place: napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.4
 42K
In the Bedroom (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. He is involved ...
Style: realistic, bleak, heartbreaking, depressing, suspense ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, revenge, grief, family drama, small town, jealousy, family relations, character study, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maine, detroit, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.8
 1K
No Return (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: false accusation, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, disorder, family problems, injustice, moral dilemma, investigation, accident, hit and run, falsely accused, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.5
 420
Veronica (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teacher takes a student to his house in the slum, but on arrival discovered that drug traffickers killed his parents and now are at your demand.
Plot: children, slum, girl, education, feminism, organized crime, teacher, police, murder, witness, violence, female protagonist ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Story: When you grow up poor on the streets of London you have 2 choices. Stay poor or get Rich. We follow the True Story of the rise of a petty drug dealer to his eventual involvement in some of the most notorious and infamous real life Robberies and ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
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28%
 5.1
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Die Tigerin (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
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27%
 5.9
 9K
Lila & Eve (2015)
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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After Him (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle ...
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27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A dying man gives his lawyer a tape that manipulates her into taking a posthumous revenge on those who made his life Hell.
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26%
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Blood Brothers (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Blood Brothers- While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford, a young African-American man, witnesses a gang-related murder and is horrified to discover that his beloved older brother Sly is one of the perps. Darryl grapples with his ...
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26%
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Shot Pattern (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: No overview found.
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Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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