Movies like Dead Dogs

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Dead Dogs (1999)
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Dead Dogs (1999)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young security guard works the late shift at the Driftwood Inn along with a desk clerk and a married night maid with whom he is having an affair in whatever room is available. Unexpectedly, his brother and his lover, who used to be the guard's girl friend, show up at the motel. Turns out the two have been robbing convenience store and want the guard to join them to steal the motel safe after the Fourth of July when it will be at its fullest. Past history surfaces as jealousies mar the group's plans.
Style: neo noir, expressionism, independent film
Plot: chess, woman with a gun, sex, heist, thief, love triangle, jealousy, bet, adultery, theft, maid, security guard, safe, robbery, swimming pool, telephone call, infidelity, classical music, male female relationship, motel, cigarette smoking, femme fatale, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, affair, sibling rivalry ...

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Most similar movies to Dead Dogs

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, suspenseful, serious and realistic films with plots about murder, heist, robbery, theft, money, thief and sex mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Dead Dogs: The Underneath (1995), Last Time Forever (2006), 10 Cent Pistol (2014), Night Class (2001), Bound (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Underneath (1995)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Michael Chambers has come home to Austin, Texas. To the mother who's starting a new life and the brother driven by old jealousies. To the places he remembers and the memories he can't forget. And to Rachel, the woman he married and then ...
Style: neo noir, erotic, stylized, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot: heist, betrayal, gambling, casino, hospital, love triangle, trucker, killer, making love, club, sex scene, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, texas
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95%
Last Time Forever (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: A small-time divorce lawyer gets involved with an alluring married woman, and together they draw her rich husband into a blackmail scheme.
Style: surprise ending, neo noir, detective, independent film
Plot: married, law, spouse, scam, femme fatale, mirror, private detective, cynicism, accidental death, seduction, lawyer, motel ...
Place: miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 4.6
 576
10 Cent Pistol (2014)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, twist ending ...
Plot: criminal, robbery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between men, friendship, father son relationship, police station, police, love triangle, betrayal, love, narration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 4.5
 236
Night Class (2001)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Jake, a security guard in a small hotel, inadvertently helps out a beautiful burglar, he becomes a primary suspect and is quickly fired. Jake decides to track down the burglar himself and retrieve the stolen property.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: jewelry, security guard, jewel theft, heist, theft, investigation, encounter, burglar, robbery, unlikely criminals, crime investigation, automobile ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 7.3
 60K
Bound (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caesar.
Style: sexy, neo noir, erotic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbianism, ex convict, mafia, seduction, femme fatale, heist, lesbian sex, female criminal, sex ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: usa, idaho, indiana, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Mama loves men, but she loves money even more. She's trained her three teenager daughters to meet, marry and murder men for their money. But soon the meet Harold and he got other plans.
Style: grim, independent film
Plot: woman with a gun, exploitation, fraud, black widow, daughter, attempted murder, attempted rape, police officer, murder, money, female nudity, gangster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.4
 517
Hit Me (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Sonny lives with his retarded older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in.
Style: erotic, independent film, neo noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: crime gone awry, femme fatale, heist, hotel, profanity, chance, sexual content, gangster, violent content, disorder, eating disorder, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., montreal, paris france, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring ...
Style: clever, entertaining, exciting, suspense, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: heist, casino, thief, revenge, robbery, perfect crime, caper, mentor, conspiracy, vengeance, con artists, greed ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, usa, north america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 7.7
 614K
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to ...
Style: clever, witty, exciting, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, caper, casino, thief, cons and scams, perfect crime, outsmarting, con artists, twists and turns, deception, scheme, organized crime ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, atlantic city, usa, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.8
 501
Stray Dolls (2019)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. But the motel’s other employees and guests pull her back into a life she preferred to leave behind.
Style: bleak, tense, suspense, dark, social ...
Plot: gay interest, male nudity, theft, kidnapping, drug, immigrant, junkie, emigrant, stolen money, heist, american dream, cleaning lady ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.8
 2K
Running Time (1997)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Running Time was filmed in black and white, in real time, and seemingly takes place in one continuous, fluid shot. It's a little like Hitchcock's "Rope," but it's on location! Carl, an ex-con who sets out to rob the prison ...
Style: black and white, neo noir, hood, cult classic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, safecracker, gang, cop, gangster, ghetto, politics, partner, disorder, cons and scams, prison, master criminal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.3
 35K
The Getaway (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
Style: neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, road movie ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, on the run, prison, betrayal, car chase, murder, bank robbery, robbery, caper, shootout, gunfight, infidelity ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: texas, el paso texas, austin texas, persia, san antonio texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.0
 6K
68 Kill (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Chip's problem is that he can't say no to beautiful women. This weakness gets him into a world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000.
Style: dark comedy, exciting, serious, tense, suspense ...
Plot: female psychopath, dominant woman, interracial sex, videotaped sex, car chase, murder, pretty woman, romancing a criminal, heist gone wrong, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, robbery ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.5
 412K
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Style: entertaining, clever, stylized, exciting, intellectual ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, robbery, con artists, perfect crime, thief, caper, master thief, planning, con men, art thief, money, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, rome italy, europe, iran, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.0
 60K
The Lookout (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Style: neo noir, tense, realistic, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: bank robbery, heist, memory loss, robbery, seduction, casual sex, female nudity, violence, young man, murder, loss of friend, tragic event ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, kansas, missouri, kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Frogs for Snakes (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles ...
Style: black comedy, neo noir, dark comedy, independent film
Plot: loan shark, stealing, greed, shooting, debt collector, ex husband ex wife relationship, actress, clique, dream, thief, theft, hitman ...
Time: year 1998
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Style: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: robbery, dysfunctional family, heist gone wrong, blackmail, greed, adultery, nudity, murder, divorce, caper, character study, debt ...
Time: year 2007, 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, persia, usa, rio de janeiro, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.7
 365
Linda (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two couples, friends for a long time, decide to go away together. Things soon take a turn for the worse when Linda and Jeff spend far too much time together instead of with their respective spouses, Paul and Stella. - From IMDB
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, cynical, suspenseful ...
Plot: erotica, girl, prison escape, conspiracy, false accusation, infidelity, murder, couples, protagonist as suspect, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 4K
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
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa, los angeles, venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Sathuranga Vettai (2014)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A con artist is caught by the cops and is swindled off the money by his own partners. Meanwhile, a person who he had scammed hires a gangster to finish him off. Can he outwit these people and turn over a new leaf?
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: heist, con men, con artists, scam, criminal, chase, hidden identity, rivalry, hotshot hero, escapades, heroes, gentleman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Sins of the Night (1993)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jack Nietsche is a hardened ex-con who now works for an P.I. firm, run by Ted Quincy. Quincy's ex-lover is Roxie, now wife to godfather Tony Falcone. In a huge mix-up/double-cross, Roxie plots with Jack to get rid of Falcone and Quincy, one an ...
Style: erotic, independent film, neo noir
Plot: abusive husband, marital infidelity, erotica, femme fatale, gangster, ex convict, promise, runaway, unlikely partners, deal, impossible love, love interest ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.3
 205
Trade-Off (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man has an affair with a mysterious woman and shares with her his desire to end his troubled marriage. When his wife is found dead, his lover admits to the killing and persuades him to kill her husband in return.
Plot: unfaithful husband, accident, faked death, murder, affair, adultery, hotel room, sex, infidelity, beach, falling from height, jealousy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
 470
Bad Christmas (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A peaceful Christmas Eve is interrupted when a thief breaks into a villa. When the family’s little daughter mistakes him for Santa Claus and asks him to fulfill her Christmas wish, he will be forced to perform a miracle that will redeem secrets ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: adultery, infidelity, santa claus, cheating wife, christmas eve, thief, heist gone wrong, heist, mistaken identity, robbery, criminal, attempted robbery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
 5.7
 881
Payback (1995)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money. Oscar is eventually released from prison but when he goes to get revenge, he gets sidetracked by ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: femme fatale, armed robbery, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, couple relations, love triangle, heist, prison, ex convict, adultery, erotica, making love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 2K
Once a Thief (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Style: neo noir, retro, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: heist, jazz, robbery, woman with a gun, music and dance, explosions, family relations, bare chested male, homosexual subtext, siblings relations, false arrest, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
 76K
Derailed (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, rough, twist ending ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, blackmail, dangerous attraction, twists and turns, police investigation, couples, rape, danger, betrayal, disorder, femme fatale ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
Style: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, police investigation, couple relations, mysterious villain, psychopath, murder investigation, evil man, violence, police detective ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Best Laid Plans (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, tricky, cynical ...
Plot: heist, manipulation, twists and turns, small town, betrayal, murder, cons and scams, dishonesty, nothing goes right, disorder, couples, caper ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, nevada, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.1
 159
Masseuse 3 (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A brothel owner finds herself the target of an assassin.
Style: sexploitation film
Plot: erotica, sex, woman with a gun, massage, blonde, outdoor sex, telephone call, swimming pool, female nudity, wine, erotic thriller, doggystyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.4
 324
Hot Target (1985)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Wife of successful NZ businessman is seduced by fellow American after "chance" meeting in park. However, Greg has more than love-making with the beautiful Christine in mind.
Style: cult classic, neo noir, erotic, independent film
Plot: erotica, female pubic hair, nudity, horny wife, bare breasts, burglar, sexually dissatisfied wife, unhappy wife, cricket, cheating wife, unfaithful wife, affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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