Movies like One Away

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One Away (1976)
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One Away (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two brothers plot to get their third brother out of jail.
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, forest, police, escape, gypsy, manhunt, convict, on the run, wilderness
Place: south africa

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Most similar movies to One Away

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and suspenseful films with plots about prison, escape, police, on the run, murder, manhunt and chases and races mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like One Away: Five Days from Home (1978), The Loners (1972), Live by the Fist (1993), Malevolence (2004), Morgan's Ferry (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw ...
Plot: prison, alcatraz, convict, escape, robbery, murder, criminal, armed robbery, prison life, prisoner, spanking
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Five Days from Home (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.
Plot: police, christmas, hostage, motel, radio, hospital, escape, father son relationship, prison, frame up, convict, sheriff ...
Time: year 1978
Place: louisiana
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73%
 4.9
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The Loners (1972)
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: On his motorcycle Stein, a half-blood Indian, tries to stay out of the hands of the police, who are chasing him for accidentally killing a cop. Together with his friend Alan and a beautiful but desperate girl Stein will get involved in a robbery and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: motorcycle, biker, police, robbery, exploitation, false accusation, native american, on the run, car accident, explosion
Time: year 1972, 70s
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64%
Live by the Fist (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: prison, exploitation, solitary, frame up, sailor, bare breasts, corruption, kung fu, island, attempted rape, convict, justice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Malevolence (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Antonio owes the Robaldo family a hundred G's, Gray wants revenge on the street gang who mugged him, Jimmy's escaped from prison, and his brother/accomplice David has many serious mental conditions. Detective Brickley is hot on their trail ...
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: mafia, hitman, school shooting, kidnapped, kidnapping, psychology, police, stalker, gang, demon, interracial relations, babysitter ...
Time: year 2004
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 689
Morgan's Ferry (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three escaped convicts hide out in the home a reclusive woman as they wait to catch a ferry.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot: dangerous attraction, on the run, fall in love, criminal heroes, confined, couples, isolation, woman in danger, danger, manhunt, escaped prisoner, farmhouse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: southern usa
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46%
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 235
Running Hot (1984)
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: lust, escape, police, prostitute, death, killer, manhunt, blonde, sleazy, masturbation, teenager, love ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Defiant Ones (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escapechained to each other.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, singing, escape, on the run, racism, prison, prison escape, dungeon, interracial relations, racial prejudice, fugitive, prison warden ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Wild Youth (1960)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A teenage escapee from a correctional facility falls in with a drug dealer operating near the Mexican border.
Style: grindhouse, sexy, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquent, drug, escape, stoner, gangster, farm, kids in trouble, disorder, mischievous children, society, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Time: year 1960, 50s
Place: new mexico, mexico, canada, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Five Loose Women (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five inmates break out of a women’s prison. Four of them are hardened convicts, but one is a girl who was convicted for a crime she didn’t commit. As the authorities chase them down, the cons terrorize or kill anyone who gets in their way.
Style: independent film, sexploitation film
Plot: women in prison, wrongful imprisonment, exhibitionism, women's prison, prison break, prison, exploitation, escape, woman with a gun, sleaze, lesbian rape, oral sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 320
The Slams (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
Plot: blaxploitation, prison, organized crime, murder, black, heist, jail, mobster, prison escape, interracial relations, african american, sadism ...
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39%
 6.6
 400
Dead Man Out (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior during that time got more and more erratic is still mentally fit to be executed.
Plot: prison, death row, mental illness, psychiatrist, multiple murder, prison guard, death penalty, convict, murder, murderer
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Day of the Wolves (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of six thieves selected from different areas are sent a letter that promises them a minimum of $50,000 and includes a plane ticket. The letter instructs them to grow a beard. After being given a blindfolded ride from the airport, they arrive ...
Style: action thriller, neo western, independent film, neo noir, surprise ending
Plot: cowboy, old west, small town, town, double barreled shotgun, shootout, violence, machine gun, pistol, on the run, justice, escape ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, bleak
Plot: prison, escape, college, car accident, manslaughter, courtroom, on the run, fugitive, girlfriend, injustice, stock broker, estrangement ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Against Their Will: Women in Prison (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, women's prison, wrongful conviction, crooked lawyer, caught having sex, corruption, strait jacket
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Escapist (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, prison, tough heroes, violence spree, heroes, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, gang, revenge, escape, fugitives ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.5
 127
Necessity (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two million dollars of his money, but what she really wants is custody of their daughter. She hatches a plan to abduct her daughter and take her to ...
Plot: woman with a gun, on the run, model, pilot, female protagonist, false identity, airplane
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Relentless Justice (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Former Australian Intelligence operative Victoria Dev Ries, lives a quiet life in suburban America where as a single mother she raises her only daughter and trains fighters in her own M.M.A. gym. But when her daughter goes on a camping trip and ...
Plot: woman with a gun, female fight, one against many, kung fu, torture, manhunt, one woman army, graphic violence, forest, revenge, martial arts, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Hard Choices (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: prison, escape, on the run, murder, kids in trouble, drug dealing, love and romance, law enforcement, fall in love, youth, chases and races, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.0
 349
Jailbirds (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a ...
Style: suspense, sensual, sexploitation film
Plot: women's prison, lesbian rape, big breasts, women in prison, female nudity, prostitute, exploitation, lesbian sex, murder of a nude woman, lesbianism, sex, lesbian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.5
 513
Hulchul (1995)
Genre: Action, Romance, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A troubled ACP adopts a young poor child named Deva whose mother and father died. When he grows up, he helps his adopted father as a police officer and ACP to solve various crimes around town to save his job and protect his family. Deva should not ...
Plot: orphan, law, family relations, death sentence, gang, revenge, police, escape, court, violence, murder, prison
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Jail in Burning Island (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many shades of gray, and makes new friends and enemies.
Plot: prison, shootout, suicide by cop, police officer, prison guard, massacre, prison warden, police officer killed, police, friend, prison escape, police officer kicked ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.7
 1K
Penitentiary (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, blaxploitation, boxing, black, drifter, black history, martial arts, underground, thug life, false accusation, prison sex, gay subtext ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Manhunt (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. Unable to prove ownership, the young man is then sentenced ...
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, partner, prison life, frame up, false accusation, life is a bitch, heroes, protagonist as suspect, manhunt, fugitives, confined, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 72
Dog and Cat (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Dog and Cat is an American television series that aired on ABC on Saturday night at 10:00 p.m Eastern time in 1977. Lou Antonio played Sgt. Jack Ramsey, an undercover detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, who found himself teamed with a ...
Style: tv series pilot
Plot: female detective, porn industry, shooting, rookie, police, volkswagen beetle
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: small town, manhunt, chase, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.3
 243
The Chain (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When unjustly imprisoned in a South American jail, a tough cop and a renegade arms dealer must set aside their differences to escape.
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, cop, renegade, jail, escape, arms dealer, police officer
Place: south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.0
 52
South of 8 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An ex-con trying to find work in a new Depression is lured back to a life of crime, but his gang passes the point of no return once they become fugitives.
Style: unusual plot structure, exciting, captivating, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, robbery, hostage, master criminal, young adult, prison, escape, police, violence, money, fight ...
Time: future, 2040s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.3
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Catchfire (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, fall in love, woman in danger, love affair, mafia, hidden identity, rescue, on the run, criminal heroes, manhunt, fugitives, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.8
 316K
The Fugitive (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, detective, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, on the run, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, investigation, fugitives, death row, doctor, manhunt, corruption, fugitive ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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