Movies like Running Hot
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Running Hot (1984)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prostitute.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, hot
Plot:
police, escape, lust, prostitute, love, teenager, killer, female nudity, blonde, death, prostitution, masturbation, female masturbation, manhunt, escaped prisoner, sleazy, skinny dipping, dead boy, nude, braless, escaped convict, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Place:
arizona
Most similar movies to Running Hot
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about murder, female nudity, prostitute, police, nudity, death and sex mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Running Hot: Life Imprisonment (1988), The Killer Inside Me (1976), Proof of the Man (1977), Impulse (1990), The High Price of Passion (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The childhood traumas of a solitary young man have a determinative effect on the formation of his personality and sexual behavior and have turned him into a rapist with the angelic face. One day, the young man, Giorgos, confides his secret to a ...
Plot:
greek, nudity, caught masturbating, childhood, sexual perversion, rape, flashback, death, violence, masturbation, female nudity, escape ...
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A sheriff struggles to hide his violent murderous acts.
Style:
neo noir, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, small town, psychopath, profanity, violent content, small town life, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, danger, dishonesty, social relations ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Impulse is a 1990 thriller film about a female police officer who works undercover as a prostitute on the streets of Los Angeles
Style:
neo noir, erotic, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vice squad, prostitution, drug dealer, prostitute, policewoman, female police officer, women, killer, woman with a gun, investigation, district attorney, money ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
Plot:
professor, obsession, true crime, prostitute, flashback, murder, death, male female relationship, prostitution, older man younger woman relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, erotic, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
porn industry, sex, female nudity, private detective, making love, strip club, sex worker, father, sleaze, sexuality, prostitution, porn ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, san francisco, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...
Style:
cult classic, psychotronic, poliziottesco
Plot:
mob boss, mafia, police, police officer, virus, revenge, conspiracy, nudity, female pubic hair, unfaithfulness, infidelity, fondling ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg.
Style:
erotic, poliziottesco
Plot:
illegal prostitution, murder investigation, police, fire, fight, gay, female nudity, torture, criminal, murder, blackmail, prostitute ...
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny Reynolds who has cerebral palsy. In the meantime, another inmate wants to take care of J.T. Blake forever.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
prison, interracial, poetry, corrupt sheriff, police brutality, female nudity, poker, loss of virginity, psychiatric hospital, male rape, reformed criminal, mental institution ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a ...
Style:
neo noir, grindhouse, psychotronic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, lawyer, martial arts, revenge, exploitation, black, tough heroes, hitman, rivalry, criminal's revenge, vengeance, lone wolves ...
Time:
year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it ...
Plot:
revenge, exploitation, female nudity, lust, prostitute, sexploitation, bare chested male, female objectification, female removes her clothes, female full frontal nudity
Time:
1920s
Place:
berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style:
serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
white trash, drug dealing, student athlete, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, lifestyle, youth, gang ...
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
Style:
emotional, retro, cult classic, neo noir, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage prostitute, death penalty, death row, murder, revenge, teenage prostitution, teenager, lawyer, prison, teenage girl, serial killer, age difference ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The stage is set for a series of confrontations when photographer Mark Jefferson (Tom Eplin) agrees to help his friend Roger (John Mayall) defend his night club against a handful of organized crime figures. Mark has an added incentive for becoming ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
gangster, bare breasts, female nudity, prostitution, stripper, motorcycle, street life, police detective, city, nightclub, manhunt, breakdance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, woman with a gun, nudity, murder, prostitute, murder of a prostitute, lesbianism, partner, violent content, strong sexual content, hollywood, partners against crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while ...
Style:
detective, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women in prison, prison, nudity, women's prison, lesbianism, revenge, robbery, death, murder, vengeance, sister sister relationship, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Wayward and uninhibited young runaway Kim has fallen in with a bad crowd. Kim decides to flee said crowd and goes to the west coast to reunite herself with her uptight and neurotic estranged older sister Hilary so she can collect some of the ...
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, age difference, teenage girl, drug dealer, runaway teen, teenager, runaway, inheritance, female protagonist, cautionary tale, teenage protagonist, car crash ...
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43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Orson Welles, as judge Rauch, holds a lengthy trial against Jess Tyler, a caretaker deserted by his wife ten years before, who's accused of improper relations with his daughter Kady. Complications follows when Wash, father of Kady's baby, ...
Style:
sexy, neo noir, erotic, independent film, sincere ...
Plot:
father daughter incest, incest, sex with daughter, voyeur, incestuous desire, seduction, nudity, lust, forbidden love, sex scene, desert, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1930s, year 1982, year 1937
Place:
arizona, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the large industrial port of an Italian city - sailors, women, black market traffickers, sleazy nightclubs, and dingy narrow alleys make up a world of danger, where a young American girl vanishes without a trace while an Italian man tries to ...
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
woman with a gun, lesbianism, italian mafia, mob boss, flashback, pistol, blood, gang violence, gunfight, sex scene, mafia, machine gun ...
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, waitress, killer, sex, investigation, serial murder, police, murder, female nudity, stand up comedy, peeping ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Loretta is a singer and escort in a mob-owned NYC nightclub and illegal casino. The favorite working girl of manager George, Loretta is unhappy with her current occupation and looking for a way out. George, meanwhile, is losing his stranglehold on ...
Plot:
nightclub, escort, business, casino, mobster, exploitation, rescue, city, affair, vigilante, gangster, prostitute ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
.Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that can go wrong in the burn does and Paul is left running from the law, the mob and one of the members of his own ...
Style:
crime drama
Plot:
writers, boxing, hooker, drug, oral sex, ex boxer, drug bust, strip club, stripper, prostitute, betrayal, masturbation ...
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40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A lonely South Asian American college student, who desperately attempts to escape his fate, unwittingly descends into a world of crime and violence.
Style:
hispanic, independent film, neo noir, post modern
Plot:
third world, hip hop, asian, african american, escape, college, asian american, world
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached with a dangerous proposition that ultimately leads to blackmail. ...
Style:
enigmatic, surreal, stylized, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, plot twist, murder, murder witness, love triangle, voyeur, stripper, love and romance, journalism, drug dealing, dishonesty, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
oklahoma, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A poor young woman is recruited by a friendly couple traveling in an RV into becoming part of the dark world of truck stop prostitution.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, talky
Plot:
prostitute, on the road, adultery, family life, small town, on the run, social misfits, society, youth, cons and scams, pimp, friendship ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
new hampshire, massachusetts, florida, usa, georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Style:
poliziottesco, detective, neo noir, non-linear, exciting ...
Plot:
police, robbery, police officer, politics, car chase, social commentary, anarchist, theft, tough heroes, heist, rivalry, chase ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
Plot:
white slavery, gang, sex, nudity, playing footsie, prostitute, lesbianism, murder, lesbian, female nudity, police, drug
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a video tape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that ...
Style:
neo noir, grindhouse, suspenseful, erotic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, sex party, blackmail, cannon, crime gone awry, betrayal, serial killer, sex scene, killer, false accusation, making love, teenager ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of '60s thrill-killer Charles Schmidt ("The Pied Piper of Tucson"), Skipper Todd (Robert F. Lyons) is a charismatic 23-year old who charms his way into the lives of high school kids in a small California town. ...
Style:
slasher, splatter, independent film
Plot:
serial killer, male nudity, repressed homosexual, homosexual, murder, true crime, exodus, killer, teenage girl, drug, police station, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1971
Place:
california, tucson arizona, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In order to avenge the murder of an old friend, a recently suspended female police officer goes undercover at an illegal gambling den where the winning prize is a night with one of the female staff.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, sexploitation film
Plot:
undercover cop, police officer, prostitute, police, illegal gambling, prostitution, murder investigation, undercover, policewoman, fighting crime, stormy night, one night stand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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