Movies like Kona Coast

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Kona Coast (1968)
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Kona Coast (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle (Joan Blondell), who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
Plot: loss of daughter, recovering alcoholic, drug addict, monkey, police officer, police, party, death, murder, beach, fisherman, homosexual, boat, drug addiction, telephone call, interrogation, heroin addict, beach party, old love, drowning, death of friend, fishing boat, death by drowning, seaside, henchman ...
Place: hawaii, honolulu hawaii
Keyword: crawling, ice cube

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, neo noir and suspense films with plots about murder, police, police officer, death, violence, gun and family relations mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Kona Coast: The Lawbreakers (1961), Down Time (2001), Less Than Zero (1987), The Awakening of Candra (1983), Waikiki (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Lawbreakers (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner '​s efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: exotic dancer, train station, locker, promotion, blackmail, crooked lawyer, deception, nightclub, lawyer, car accident, airport, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 3.2
 450
Down Time (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Slim Williams, a small-time dealer, is poised to make his big score with his partner Paulie. But the easy deal becomes a nightmare when Slim is caught in deadly police sting and ends up in a maximum-security penitentiary. Sold out by his partner, ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, rough, hispanic ...
Plot: prison gang, prison, drug addict, jail, gang, power, racism, revenge, police, grudge, murder, voice over narration ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 6.4
 22K
Less Than Zero (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style: stylized, cult classic, visually stunning, cerebral, erotic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, friendship, drug addict, addiction, drug, drug abuse, male nudity, hedonism, male prostitute, male prostitution, christmas, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Awakening of Candra (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the true-life story of teenage bride Candra Torres who was abducted in 1975 while on a honeymoon camping trip in the High Sierras.
Style: psychological thriller
Plot: vacation, wilderness, fisherman, woman in jeopardy, fiancee, police officer, police, violence, rape, psychopath, murder, honeymoon ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Waikiki (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two detectives are called on to investigate the bizarre serial murders of young women.
Style: detective, tv series pilot
Plot: serial killer, female police officer, kidnapping, human bait, videotaping, strangulation, stalker, private detective, sexual abuse, sexual assault, killing spree, swimming pool ...
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Jai Gangaajal (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: gang, police officer, female protagonist, police, organized crime, hand to hand combat, sexism, tough girl, murder, corrupt cop, policewoman, fistfight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.0
 2K
Skins (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot: native american reservation, vigilantism, native american, brother brother relationship, family relations, arson, vandalism, life is a bitch, homecoming, american football, social relations, human nature ...
Time: year 2002
Place: nebraska, montana, idaho, asia, south dakota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Preppie Murder (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family ...
Plot: serial killer, law, trial, police, death, sex, murder, crimes of passion, park, live action
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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A Killer Among Friends (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film tells why a girl was killed by two of her best friends.
Style: unusual plot structure, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens, toddlers
Plot: true crime, murder, drowning, family relations, grief, lie, killer, false friend, investigation, rivalry, teenager, rivals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.0
 58
75 (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, existential, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids
Plot: double life, strong female character, social problems, doctor patient relationship, friendship between men, secret, secret life, organized crime, drug use, social realism, introspection, car accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, usa, midwest, ohio, kentucky ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Prince of the City (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy ...
Style: tense, neo noir, detective, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: manly
Plot: corruption, police, drug addiction, drug, lawyer, police corruption, addiction, whistleblower, fighting the system, police investigation, betrayal, redemption ...
Time: 70s, year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, america, usa, virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
 412
Cool Breeze (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.
Style: neo noir, detective, black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, cheerleader, heist, exploitation, robbery, black, martial arts, ex convict, death, chase, diamonds, sex ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: texas, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.2
 130
An Obsession (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, detective
Plot: police, wife, fistfight, shooting, heroin addict, murder, gun, gunshot wound, stolen gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.7
 4K
Bloody Mama (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker (Shelley Winters) grows into a violently powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons, and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman ...
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, bleak, hood, cult classic ...
Plot: gang, gangster, prison, murder, female gangster, shootout, great depression, bad mother, robbery, older woman younger man relationship, strong female lead, fbi ...
Time: 1930s, year 1929
Place: america, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Blood In, Blood Out (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
Style: intense, entertaining, bad ending, realistic, serious ...
Plot: gang, prison gang, prison, street gang, drug abuse, ghetto, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, survival ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, panama, beverly hills ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.1
 33K
Mean Creek (2004)
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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 7.3
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Buoyancy (2019)
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Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Style: serious, rough, disturbing, suspense
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Place: cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: detective, realistic, bleak, grim, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, drug addiction, prostitute, murder, police brutality, cop killer, police station, violence, corrupt cop, hospital, cop, nypd ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 5.3
 163
Untouched (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Untouched is the story of a reluctant attorney's struggle with inner demons while defending a teenage girl accused of murdering her newborn. When the "Hostess City of the South" is rocked by the horrific crime, Mitchell Thomas III ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot: dedicated lawyer, uncover truth, haunted by the past, courtroom drama, legal investigation, life is a bitch, legal, courtroom, murder, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.8
 184
The Chase (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Denver, a fleeing bank robber kills a cop and kidnaps an old man to hold as a hostage. He is chased by the police and a news helicopter, which films the entire incident. Based on a true story.
Plot: murder, bank robbery, chase, news report, death of father, father son relationship, pistol, police officer killed, hostage, pursuit, on the run, police ...
Place: denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Circle of Deception (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on Ann Rule's true crime book Practice to Deceive. In this New York Times Best Seller, a small, island community is turned upside down when Russel Douglas, a local businessman, is found dead the day after Christmas.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two kidnappers snatch a girl off the streets and imprison her in a remote beach house.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, rape, ransom, psychopath, airport, criminal, hell, cafe, murder, chase, crime gone awry, flashback ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot: mafia, criminal, gangster, mob boss, mobster, gang war, mafioso, black man white woman sex, cosa nostra, organized crime, criminal underworld, crime boss ...
Time: 60s, year 1971, 70s, year 1967, year 1972
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Poodle Springs (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
Style: neo noir, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: private detective, murder, private investigator, prostitute, gambler, small town, casino, father in law son in law relationship, businessman, pimp, dysfunctional marriage, love ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963
Place: california, nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Dictator's Guns (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his ...
Plot: boat, yacht, police officer, police, murder, ex husband, wound, diving, sailor, captain, sailboat, arms smuggling ...
Place: france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Hate U Give (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her ...
Style: hood, captivating, social, sad, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: racism, ghetto, african american, father daughter relationship, black, black lives matter, father son relationship, private school, loss of friend, coming of age, black history, teenager ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 729
Pendulum (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality ...
Plot: police officer, mental disorder, death, murder, falsely accused, police captain, on the run, cop, police, wife, murderer, false accusation ...
Time: year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Naked Kiss (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former prostitute discovers that her philanthropic fiance is involved in perversion.
Style: neo noir, controversial, grindhouse, dark, surreal ...
Plot: prostitute, small town, social commentary, hospital, pedophile, prostitution, pedophilia, nurse, abortion, marriage proposal, child molester, hooker ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1961, year 1964
Place: america, switzerland, venice, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.8
 153K
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style: disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style: road movie, independent film, cult classic, depressing, dark ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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