Movies like As Time Runs Out

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As Time Runs Out (1999)
 5.6
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As Time Runs Out (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A wealthy man races against time to save his kidnapped son whose abductor left him with a bomb set to detonate.
Plot: chess, island, police officer, whale, kidnapping, nanny, death, map, betrayal, doctor, hospital, cemetery, wealth, rat, rescue, helicopter, farm, maid, fbi agent, photograph, anger, bomb, cow, father son relationship, police station ...
Place: seattle, seattle washington

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Most similar movies to As Time Runs Out

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and suspense films with plots about murder, death, blood, kidnapping, police officer, violence and police car mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like As Time Runs Out: Criminal Law (1988), Small Town Murder Songs (2010), The Hillside Strangler (2004), The Juror (1996), 6 Bullets (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Criminal Law (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, courtroom, lawyer, investigation, psychopath, police investigation, chase, courtroom drama, blood, gang, criminal, law ...
Time: 80s
Place: boston, usa
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Small Town Murder Songs (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Walter is the chief of police in a small Ontario town that has its first murder victim, an attractive young woman who is found naked on the shores of the nearby lake. The woman isn't local and while the Ontario Provincial Police have taken the ...
Style: disturbing, tense, psychological, surreal, serious ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, mother daughter conflict, murder, redemption, haunted by the past, police detective, social relations, rape and murder, ex lover, suspect, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada
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88%
The Hillside Strangler (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, strangulation, rape, prostitute, murder, police investigation, psychopath, murderous pair, violence, sexual abuse, death, hidden identity ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, oregon, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Juror (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, ...
Style: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, intense, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom drama, obsession, courtroom, trial, legal, lawyer, murder mystery, hitman, danger, unlikely friendships, single parent, blackmail ...
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6 Bullets (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, martial arts, danger, child in peril, daring rescue, missing child, father son relationship, organized crime, police detective, government agent, murder, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Perfect Strangers (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A hit-man tries to seduce the mother of a child who witnessed his most recent kill.
Style: neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: hitman, gangster, feminism, murder, single mother, female chauvinist, female sexist, sex scene, misandrist, child witness, witness, feminist ...
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Place: new york
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66%
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Narc (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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62%
 6.1
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Judas Kiss (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blackmail, murder, betrayal, cons and scams, police investigation, state affairs, criminal, crime gone awry, protagonist as suspect, danger, dishonesty, politics ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
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61%
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 6.2
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Eye for an Eye (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: persia, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.9
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Koma (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A horrid crime was committed at a wedding reception and bridesmaid Chi Ching was the lone eyewitness. At the police station, she recognised the suspect, Suen Ling, in a line up. She also discovered the affair between this stranger and her lover. All ...
Style: suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot: vengeance, false accusation, twists and turns, wrongful conviction, prison, courtroom, murder, revenge, manipulation, lawyer, wrongful arrest, buried alive ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, seattle, southern usa, georgia, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Traffic (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine ...
Style: suspense, bleak, political, realistic, dramatic ...
Plot: drug abuse, organized crime, addiction, drug dealer, drug lord, drug addiction, drug traffic, drug cartel, drug, corruption, war on drugs, heroin ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
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57%
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The Informer (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones…
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, thought provoking ...
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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57%
Rollercoaster (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The plot is about a guile young terrorist who is able to blackmail a series of companies by placing home-made radio controlled bombs within the central attraction of amusement parks; roller coasters. The young man played by Timothy Bottoms gives a ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, talky, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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54%
The Bone Collector (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
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Audience: adult
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Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, persia, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
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52%
Internal Affairs (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
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Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.8
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Hard to Kill (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son ...
Style: suspense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hospital, martial arts, revenge, vigilante, one man army, coma, murder, violence, hitman, conspiracy, mixed martial arts, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 1990, 90s
Place: los angeles, chicago, california
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52%
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Heaven (1998)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual stripper who is bothered by accurate, but extremely ...
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Time: future, year 1998
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51%
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Duration: 93 min.
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Style: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, sincere, independent film ...
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Duration: 144 min.
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Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, insanity, ransom, loneliness, mental illness, character study, life is a bitch, twists and turns, alcoholic, alcoholism, crime gone awry, pursuit ...
Time: year 2008
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult who plan to gang-rape the girls, then kill them. Meanwhile, ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini
Style: suspenseful, scary, psychological, surprise ending, rough ...
Plot: masochist, chase, serial killer, police investigation, murder, ransom, fbi, police station, psychopath, police detective, danger, race against time ...
Time: 90s
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44%
Hero and the Terror (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has ...
Style: suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
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44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: independent film
Plot: racism, big city, rescue, female teacher, hitman, racial slur, police officer, cello, music teacher, stalking, death, african american ...
Time: year 1975
Place: new york
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City of Ghosts (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A con man travels to Cambodia (also on the run from law enforcement in the U.S.) to collect his share in an insurance scam, but discovers more than he bargained for
Style: intense, stylized, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: betrayal, father son relationship, character study, greed, chases and races, police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, cons and scams, friendship, unlikely friendships, fbi ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.7
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Point Blank (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Style: captivating, bleak, tense, brutal, action thriller ...
Plot: ambulance, corruption, gang, hospital, police, betrayal, police detective, violence, deception, machismo, organized crime, conspiracy ...
Time: 2010s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.0
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Cop Land (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, talky, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: corruption, nypd, dirty cop, mafia, police, police corruption, internal affairs, sheriff, organized crime, corrupt cop, investigation, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.6
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Dark Blue (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, harsh, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, cop, police, corruption, investigation, police officer, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
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Standoff (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A troubled veteran gets a chance at redemption by protecting a girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Holding a shotgun with a single shell, he engages in physical and psychological warfare in a desperate fight for the girl's life.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: witness, murder, home invasion, rescue, mind game, moral dilemma, danger, deception, escape, brutality, gunfight, redemption ...
Time: year 2016, year 2015, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Return from the Ashes (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an ...
Style: noir, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: chess, murder, female nudity, world war two, murder by drowning, murder of a nude woman, drowning, man kills a woman, death by drowning, dead woman, wedding, child in peril ...
Time: 60s, year 1945, 1940s
Place: poland, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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