Movies like Ghostbox Cowboy
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Ghostbox Cowboy (2018)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tech entrepreneur Jimmy Van Horn arrives in China armed with an invention and confidence, only to learn that being American is not enough to succeed.
Style:
intercultural, neo noir, independent film, ambiguous ending, art house, cult classic, surreal, psychotronic, weird
Plot:
technology, entrepreneur, culture clash, fish out of water, corruption, entrepreneurship, ambition, globalization, satire, identity crisis, identity, dark humor, betrayal, language barrier, ethics, moral ambiguity, self delusion, isolation, ghost, mission, surrealism, nightlife, industrial espionage, business, capitalism ...
Place:
texas, china
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Most similar movies to Ghostbox Cowboy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, tense, suspense and dark films with plots about moral ambiguity, corruption, urban, betrayal, satire, revenge and dark humor mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ghostbox Cowboy: Thursday (2006), Hollywood Adventures (2015), Yadang: The Snitch (2025), Hostile Takeover (2025), Men of Deeds (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Grey Malcolm is a talented young assassin who's ready to get his life back. But before he can leave, he has one final assignment: kill a bank robber who has the city's underground up in arms. As Malcolm tracks his target he learns that his ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful, dark, fast paced, noir ...
Plot:
assassin, hitman, contract killing, cat and mouse, final showdown, urban, underworld, betrayal, violence, revenge, chase, urban decay ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A young man goes from China to Hollywood on short notice to find his girlfriend. He ends up connected with two others in his quest, which gets much more complicated than he envisioned.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
hollywood, relationship vs career, love and romance, satire, problem solving, romantic relationship, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, love interest, relationships, love story ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Navigating both the criminal underworld and law enforcement agencies, professional snitches called "yadang" provide covert information about the drug world to prosecutors and police. When a drug bust at a party attended by high-profile ...
Style:
tense, neo noir, suspense, dark
Plot:
drug traffic, corruption, informant, snitch, underworld, deception, investigation, organized crime, moral ambiguity, double life, conspiracy, police procedural ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows Pete, a professional hitman, as he faces a group of assassins after the boss of a crime syndicate suspects disloyalty due to his attendance at Workaholics Anonymous meetings.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, dark, fast paced, bleak ...
Plot:
assassin, hitman, betrayal, anti hero, cat and mouse, organized crime, mistrust, urban, violent, revenge, paranoia, survival ...
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Bulgaria
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ilie, a small-town police chief, wants to build a modest comfortable life for himself, but ends up making the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to be a part of something - to build an orchard, even a home. Although dubious ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murder, village, law enforcement, village life, character study, midlife crisis, guilt, accomplice, police, small town, moral ambiguity, killing ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A getaway driver finds himself in harm's way when he gets caught up in a job involving casino heist money leading to a debt over his head.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, noir, fast paced ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
underworld, bandit, heist, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, betrayal, isolation, escape, survival, violence, anti hero, chase ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Television account of an honest New York narcotics cop who becomes unwillingly involved in a plan to uncover corruption in his department.
Style:
crime thriller, tension, suspenseful, suspense, tragic
Plot:
corruption, law enforcement, drug trade, cover up, betrayal, conspiracy, nypd, urban, ethical dilemma, mistrust, whistleblower, covert operation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a successful young artist named Benjamin is involuntarily committed, he is completely baffled, for he doesn’t remember anything about what happened. Life in the psychiatric institute is violent and absurd, but step by step, Benjamin seems to ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
memory loss, mental illness, psychiatric hospital, character study, problem, memory lapse, memory, amnesia, criminal, repressed memory, amnesiac, self discovery ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his relatives, the Chao's for a vacation. The clash of cultures, ...
Style:
realistic, intercultural, comedy drama, semi serious, touching ...
Plot:
culture clash, family drama, identity, interracial relations, family reunited, language barrier, family vacation, relatives, social commentary, parenting, racial prejudice, immigration ...
Time:
80s
Place:
china, beijing china, san francisco, asia
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Loot is the story for five guys who find quick ways of success and accomplishment in life. It is a quest for quick money and better life. In a place where the crime rates are ascending day by day, Loot draws a reality check on the present security ...
Style:
crime thriller, black comedy, suspense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bank robbery, heist, social commentary, street life, betrayal, poverty, friendship, desperation, realism, lawlessness, heist gone wrong, survival ...
Place:
nepal
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dave and Joe, just evicted from their Oakland apartment, turn to stealing cars and dealing Fluoride to make their financial ends meet. One night they find Summer Hayes, star of a popular 1990's teen soap, in the trunk of a stolen automobile. ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, dark, neo noir ...
Plot:
shootout, kidnapping, drug, gang war, bandit, heist gone wrong, money problems, theft, robbery, money, stealing a car, heist ...
Place:
california, oakland california
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In an urban Indian city, A struggling actor battles for his career, but his friend who loses money in a scam deal commits an action that puts both of their lives in danger. The three last days before the incident follows the struggling actor, an ...
Style:
avant garde, crime drama, art house, neo noir, intense ...
Plot:
greed, struggling actor, moral ambiguity, city life, urban, ambition, corruption, danger, urban decay, realism, investigation, opportunist ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
Style:
crime drama, neo noir, detective, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murder, interpol, drug traffic, law enforcement, investigation, urban, underworld, police procedural, violent, revenge, exploitation, nightlife ...
Time:
year 1971
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspense, neo noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
law enforcement, organized crime, cat and mouse, police procedural, heist, investigation, retired cop, criminal syndicate, ambush, betrayal, moral ambiguity, surveillance ...
Place:
macau
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Kumaresan, a police constable, gets recruited for an operation implanted to capture Perumal Vaathiyar, who leads a separatist group dedicated to fighting against the authorities for committing atrocities against innocent village women in the name of ...
Style:
crime drama, political thriller, tension, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
police officer, fight, capture, battles, police, problem, police procedural, human rights, moral ambiguity, police brutality, violence, justice ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Cop-turned-security guard Ma Xianyong finds himself in a criminal twilight zone when two unrelated events turn his world upside down. The mysterious disappearance of his boss has implications for his financial security. Even more perilous is the ...
Style:
crime drama, tension, suspense, black comedy, crime thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, moral ambiguity, robbery, family drama, desperation, anti hero, hostage situation, brother sister relationship, security guard, missing person, satire, poverty ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In a dream world, the exaggerated lives of six teenagers are thrown into a world of drugs in crime in a typical crime plot in a not so typical world of stolen cocaine, penicillin, Fire Saws, and Carl Jung.
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, psychological, suspenseful, experimental ...
Plot:
teenager, drug, violence, drug traffic, moral ambiguity, mature, dream world, loss of innocence, alternate reality, identity crisis, coming of age, urban ...
Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Insaat, 2003 directed by Ömer Vargi to undertake the construction of film.
Style:
captivating, satirical, thrilling, semi serious, crime drama ...
Plot:
turk, workplace situations, construction worker, workplace, satire, civil engineer, coworker, blue collar, social realism, urban, betrayal, poverty ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Aaron Foley, a police officer on the rise, tries to escape from under the shadow of his father's legacy in Detroit by busting the rich and famous of Beverly Hills.
Style:
detective, lighthearted, action comedy, teen, neo noir
Plot:
fish out of water, police procedural, cop, class conflict, luxury, investigation, celebrity culture, glamour, high society, buddy cop, corruption, identity ...
Place:
beverly hills, detroit
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two cousins, both from a middle-class background, finally see their dream come true when their inheritance is rightfully returned to them following their uncle’s death. Soon after, and to their shock, they discover that the inheritance is in the ...
Style:
dark comedy, tense, crime thriller, black comedy, twisted ...
Plot:
criminal underworld, smuggling, mob boss, organized crime, family drama, dark humor, greed, ambition, scheme, risk, inheritance, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, entertaining, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
lawyer, satire, wealth, materialism, high society, changing lives, money problems, social misfits, financial problem, betrayal, lifestyle change, relationship problems ...
Place:
milan italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Forty Winks follows Fabio Berker, struggling Hypnotist in New York City, as he is blackmailed into being the world's first hypnotist hit man by a mysterious woman who finds out his degree is fake.
Style:
dark comedy, psychological, captivating, thrilling, crime thriller ...
Plot:
hypnosis, blackmail, deception, hypnotist, secret, problem, hitman, desperation, impostor, manipulation, urban, underworld ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An assassin flashes between a nightmarish dream and her reality at a secret underground organization. When her latest mission involves killing a grieving mother, she discovers her target is closer to home than she realizes.
Style:
dark, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot:
female protagonist, assassin, secret society, moral dilemma, claustrophobia, identity crisis, betrayal, motherhood, flashback, moral ambiguity, grief, double life ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harlin Garret loses his memory and finds himself closed in a facility claimed to belong to the state security services. The manager of this place tells Garrett he used to be a killer for the mob but Garrett refuses to believe. Then he is forced to ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, action thriller, tense ...
Plot:
assassin, memory loss, paranoia, conspiracy, psychological manipulation, identity crisis, ethical dilemma, coercion, secret police, moral ambiguity, amnesia, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The hero steals the haul from the thieves, gives it back to the police but charges 10% for his services.
Style:
black comedy, cynical, fast paced, surreal
Plot:
thief, stolen goods, loot, heist, money, greed, moral ambiguity, vigilante, anti hero, urban, organized crime, satire ...
Time:
60s
Place:
west germany, scotland yard
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style:
surreal, black comedy, funny, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dark humor, twists and turns, subway, city life, nothing goes right, suicide, mistaken identity, artist, coincidence, female nudity, diner, nightclub ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Abhi wants to make a feature film with an antagonist as his lead and finds the perfect muse in the ruthless Gaddalakonda Ganesh. How he finally manages to make his debut forms the crux of the tale.
Style:
crime drama, captivating, satirical, masala, emotional ...
Plot:
gangster, filmmaking, satire, battles, criminal gang, director, bandit, gang member, criminal underworld, gang, criminal, fight ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
One tries to con. Another keeps stealing. And there's even someone that doesn't know what he's doing... The truth is life is hard for Cultara, Rato and Bino. But it all changes when Tone, the man of the world, returns home to save his ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, satirical, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
father son relationship, escapades, satire, transplant, family problems, gang leader, criminal gang, bandit, gang, social satire, family relations, humour ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The story of the Indian immigrant community in Detroit, where a garage mechanic gets unwillingly involved in the criminal world as a getaway driver.
Style:
crime drama, tense, intercultural, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
organized crime, underworld, redemption, moral ambiguity, friendship, identity, second chance, violence, outsider, working class, gang, urban decay ...
Place:
detroit
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Assigned to go undercover to take down an impenetrable crime ring, a detective finds himself falling under the sway of it's enigmatic leader.
Style:
tense, hood, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
organized crime, urban, black, undercover, covert operation, working undercover, criminal gang, criminal, gang, intrigue, undercover agent, master criminal ...
Similarity:
33%
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