Movies like One Way Out 1996

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One Way Out (1996)
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One Way Out (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a man gets out of prison, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. However, when he gets home he finds that his brother is in danger and the family farm is in foreclosure. He plans to take revenge on those responsible, but finds that he may have taken on more than he can handle
Style: independent film
Plot: heist, revenge, caper, murder, ex convict, heist gone wrong, one last job, released from prison, gangster, garage, release from prison
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about gangster, heist, murder, ex convict, released from prison, caper and revenge mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like One Way Out: Bloodbrothers (2005), Mafia Girls (1969), Score (1995), Ninja Powerforce (1988), Hell's Kitchen (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bloodbrothers (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.
Plot: released from prison, starting over, ex convict, one last job, art theft, cocaine, heist, library, brother brother relationship, criminal, prison
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.1
 20
Mafia Girls (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A crime syndicate in Miami Beach extorts politicians by filming them at sex parties.
Plot: revenge, murder, prostitute, gangster, nightclub singer, pimp, espionage, stripper, undercover agent, disfigurement
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.1
 238
Score (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A small time Yakuza thug is thrown into a bloody battle after a bank robbery he was forced into goes wrong when all the men begin to turn on each other a hitch-hiking serial killing couple decide to steal their loot.
Style: crime drama
Plot: yakuza, couples, released from prison, violence, gangster, caper, ex convict, heist gone wrong, bank robbery, petty criminal, heist, debt
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Ninja Powerforce (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a struggle for supremacy, two childhood buddies are caught on opposite sides of a deadly gang war. Their capture and subsequent release by the police sparks off another confrontation between the notorious Red Ninjas and the Golden Ninja Empire. A ...
Style: independent film
Plot: ninja, gangster, prostitute, police, murder, released from prison, police inspector, fight, ex convict
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Hell's Kitchen (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: crime gone awry, haunted by the past, murder, friendship, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, gang, life is a bitch, drug dealing, criminal heroes, heist, infidelity ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
Plot: heist, organized crime, heist gone wrong, jewel theft, jewel thief, planning, bank robbery, hi-tech, gangster, murder, revenge, laughter ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.3
 61
Paul (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After 7 years spent in jail Paul (Paul Lyss) is free again. With his old crew he celebrates his return.Nothing really changes and soon he finds himself spaced out drunk at some posh party and eventually ends up wielding a big gun.Hand held Camera ...
Plot: revenge, drunkenness, machine gun, murder, prison, released from prison, prostitute, hooker, alcohol
Place: hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.4
 386
Cairo (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Egypt, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
Style: noir, british noir
Plot: heist, exotic locale, jewel theft, thief, treasure, airport, belly dancer, nightclub owner, jewel thief, gem, heist gone wrong, museum ...
Time: year 1963
Place: egypt, africa, cairo egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Blueprint for Robbery (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A gang of career criminals plots the robbery of an armored car company's headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long before the gang members are fighting among themselves over everybody's share of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: heist, armored car robbery, master criminal, armored car, voice over narration, prison sentence, caper, jail, parole, gangster, escape, rehabilitation ...
Time: year 1961, 1950s, 50s
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.9
 681
In the Shadows (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: "In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: heist, surveillance, career criminal, chase, caper, released from prison, weapons, mistrust, car, parking lot
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Alpha Caper (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.
Plot: heist, bank robber, bank, car, ex convict, hijacking, armored car, caper, probation officer, robbery, armored car robbery, bank robbery
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.4
 10K
Straight Time (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, parole officer, robbery, bank robbery, murder, friendship, crime gone awry, going straight, dishonesty, life is a bitch, bank, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: beverly hills, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Kansas City Massacre (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
Plot: mobster, shootout, criminal gang, fbi, murder, gangster
Place: kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Last Tunnel (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A recently released prisoner reunites his criminal colleagues to pull off one last heist.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: betrayal, gang, retiring, dishonesty, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, friends, robbery, one last job, released from prison, heist, caper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.1
 60
Hoodlums (1980)
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 ⇓
41%
Batas Ng Lansangan (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Army Major RUBEN MEDRANO was once a part of an elite anti-kidnapping task force. An unfortunate incident during an operation got him suspended and sent back to Manila. There he tries to renew ties with his daughter MARISSA who has been living with ...
Plot: assassin, military officer, murder, father daughter relationship, gangster, revenge, drug dealer
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.6
 649
Infidus (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the suburbs of Rome, two disparate lives with only desire for vengeance and redemption in common find their destinies intertwined. Massimo's mind is plagued with images of his wife's violent death at the hands of a criminal gang ...
Style: suspense, bloody, brutal, psychological, tense ...
Plot: revenge, prisoner, murderer, killer, pain, henchman, death, prison, hunter, released from prison, convict, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 2010s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 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 ⇓
36%
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The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's ...
Style: neo noir, noir, crime drama, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, mafia, organized crime, sicilian, gangster, robbery, female nudity, prison escape, unfaithful wife, revenge, mobster ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: rome italy, france, venice, italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Devil's Dandruff (2022)
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 ...
Plot: drug, gangster, vengeance, revenge
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency, helped by an ex-con and various parolees.
Plot: detective agency, murder, ex convict, probation, private detective
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.0
 5K
The Outfit (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, mafia, prison, murder, hitman, bank robbery, brother brother relationship, danger, organized crime, rivalry, crime gone awry, chase ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Family Business (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal ...
Style: funny, serious, realistic, eighties
Plot: dysfunctional family, heist, father son relationship, robbery, caper, grandfather grandson relationship, death of father, ex convict, father son estrangement, death of grandfather, three generations, generation gap ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Young Dillinger (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The 1930s outlaw (Nick Adams) teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd (Robert Conrad), Baby Face Nelson (John Ashley) and Homer Van Meter.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: crime spree, heist, informant, prison escape, prison warden, robbery, prison, betrayal, gangster, federal bureau of investigation, moll, pregnancy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 880
Payroll (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured ...
Style: noir, offbeat, independent film, neo noir, poliziottesco ...
Plot: heist, caper, kitchen sink realism, armored car robbery, criminal, armored truck, female nudity, nudity, deception, factory, robbery, ambush ...
Time: year 1961
Place: northern england
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33%
 5.7
 2K
The Padre (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: girl, embezzler, escapades, criminal, heist, robbery, hidden, adventuress, cover up, thief, teamwork, caper ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.0
 4K
Deadfall (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. But Uncle Lou is also a confidence artist, and Joe is ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, realistic, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gangster, criminal heroes, cons and scams, crime gone awry, uncle nephew relationship, greed, danger, fight scenes, tribe, buddies, drug ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 732
Action Man (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American (Robert Stack) talks a retired French crook (Jean Gabin) into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
Style: cynical, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: restaurant, kidnapping, bank, adventurer, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, criminal heroes, redemption, dishonesty, confined, unlikely criminals, going straight ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.6
 454
Backfire (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a botched robbery escalates to homicide, a north Philly gun runner has to escape or outsmart the south Philly Italian mob as they close in for vengeance.
Style: touching, exciting, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: african american, criminal underworld, mafia, violence, african american man, mob violence, mafioso, street life, mob hit, gangster, murder, organized crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.3
 725
Five Thirteen (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, going straight, hopes, family relations, parents and children, released from prison, father daughter relationship, false accusation, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, violent content, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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