Movies like Out in the Open

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Out in the Open (2019)
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Out in the Open (2019)
Original name: Intemperie
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively from what has made him flee. His steps will intersect with those of a pastor and, from that moment, nothing will be the same for either of them.
Style: suspense, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: spanish civil war, man boy relationship, survival, gays and lesbians, food, violence, motorcycle, desert, water, torture, handicapped, fire, boy, male nudity, deception, bus, blood, wasteland, child, shepherd, little sister, cave, hunting, striptease, murder ...
Time: 1940s, year 1946
Place: spain

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about danger, murder, survival, blood, escapades, violence and rescue mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Out in the Open: Below Zero (2021), Theeb (2014), The Missing (2003), The Cowboys (1972), Lord of the Flies (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Below Zero (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, perverse, disturbing ...
Plot: police, rapist, murder, revenge, ice, sole survivor, confined, prisoner, death, accidental death, all male cast, survival ...
Time: 2020s
Place: spain
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 7.2
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Theeb (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Jordan, UK, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: desert, world war one, coming of age, survival, bedouin, boy, arab, journey, sheik, escapades, danger, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2010s, 1920s, year 1916
Place: middle east, jordan, saudi arabia, africa, maghreb ...
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75%
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The Missing (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn ...
Style: suspense, intense, serious, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, cowboy, gunfight, father daughter relationship, indians, native american, rescue, native, reconciliation, family relations, parents and children, rebellion ...
Time: 19th century, year 2003, 1880s, victorian era
Place: new mexico, america, usa, sonora, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.4
 16K
The Cowboys (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job ...
Style: harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: coming of age, cattle, desert, gunfight, cowboy, old west, buddies, on the road, main character dies, gold, wild west, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Lord of the Flies (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style: psychological, captivating, rough, scenic, brutal ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: island, coming of age, survival, bullying, stranded, isolation, innocence lost, death, childhood, distopia, literature, brutality ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: fictional island
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56%
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Diablo (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: murderer, mental illness, kidnapping, chase, rescue, death, fear, showdown, pursuit, evil, split personality, hunt down ...
Place: new mexico
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Cargo (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.
Plot: smuggling, stealing, stowaway, self sacrifice, murder, chase, graffiti, sea captain, passport, bird, refugee, male nudity ...
Place: africa
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The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Spain, Liechtenstein, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that ...
Style: independent film, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: pirate, lighthouse, island, remote island, torture, rape, lighthouse keeper, violent content, good versus evil, escapades, survival, confined ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1800s
Place: argentina, latin america
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51%
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Meek's Cutoff (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert.
Style: atmospheric, visually appealing, surreal, stylized, serious ...
Plot: survival, road trip, family relations, old west, native american, brutality, character study, modern western, modern west, danger, escapades, gunfight ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2010, 1840s
Place: oregon, usa, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Passion in the Desert (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers ...
Style: surreal, independent film, philosophical, psychological, serious ...
Plot: leopard, exhibitionism, sahara desert, desert, bedouin, male nudity, humanity, loneliness, brutality, wilderness, soldier, nature ...
Time: regency period, 18th century, year 1997, 1790s
Place: egypt, france, ottoman empire, sahara, middle east ...
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50%
Blood at Sundown (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: family relations, father, shootout, wild west, violence, horse, blood, pistol, showdown, fast draw, old west, gunfight ...
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49%
Nobody Knows Anybody (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Película española basada en la novela homónima escrita por Juan Bonilla. Simón, un aspirante a escritor frustrado que se dedica a escribir crucigramas para un periódico, recibe un misterioso encargo: debe incluir la palabra Adversario el ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot: psychopath, murder, danger, writer's life, rivalry, terrorism, riddles and clues, friendship between men, computer, sex scene, two worlds meeting, making love ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain, andalusia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
To Steal from a Thief (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On a rainy morning six armed men in disguise rob a bank in Valencia .But what seemed like an easy heist quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank, heist, hostage, secret, political corruption, secrets, dishonesty, robbery, bank robber, danger, plan gone awry, escapades ...
Time: year 2016
Place: spain, valencia spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Sweet Country (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, sincere, captivating, visual ...
Plot: australian aboriginal, slavery, trial, indigenous people, abuse of power, rape, court case, farmer, landowner, injustice, murder, brutality ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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47%
Dirkie - Lost in the Desert (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An 8-year-old boy and his dog are left to face a vast desert wasteland alone after a plane crash, while an army of men and machines penetrate the desert searching for them. Based on true events.
Style: action thriller
Plot: desert, wilderness, survival, dog, coming of age, homeless, missing son, stranded in the desert, skeleton, elephant, helicopter, airplane accident ...
Place: africa, south africa, namibia
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46%
The Retrieval (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, road movie ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, slavery, african american, moral dilemma, male bonding, danger, survival, escapades, society, racism, tragic hero ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: usa
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Entrusted (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, survival, holocaust, prodigy, boy genius, coming of age, young heroes, on the run, heroic mission, youth, danger, against humanity ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe, france, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Naked Prey (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, tribe, hunter, manhunt, on the run, cannibalism, native, danger, adventurer, culture clash, desert ...
Time: 19th century, 60s, 1800s
Place: africa, south africa
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43%
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Retribution (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Carlos, a bank executive, begins his morning routine by taking his kids to school. As he starts the car he receives an anonymous phone call informing him that there's a bomb under his seat. A stranger's voice tells him that he only has a ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: danger, bomb, police, blackmail, escapades, threatening telephone call, teenager, die hard, problem, family problems, heist, car bomb ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain
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Monos (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay, USA, Switzerland, Denmark, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Style: suspense, ambiguous ending, avant garde, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child soldier, violence, chase, teenage boy, surrealism, rescue, teenage girl, hostage, coming of age, nude, murder, teenager ...
Time: year 2019
Place: colombia, latin america, south america
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41%
The Cry of the Black Wolves (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Halfwit Indian Akaena promises a fictitious treasure to anyone who takes her down south where the sun always shines. Trapper Bill Robinson, an honest fur trader in Alaska, refuses to sell his dog sled to dishonest miner Mike Williams, who steals it ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, spoof
Plot: mountain, survival, dishonesty, danger, daring rescue, on the run, escapades, manhunt, bounty hunter, heroes, chases and races, rivalry ...
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41%
Shadow of the Wolf (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: village, survival, murder, wilderness, on the run, danger, eskimo indian, native american, shaman, winter, village life, false accusation ...
Time: 1930s
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40%
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns and copilot "A.J." are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to ditch their C-119 ...
Style: intense, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, desert, aviation, stranded, air disaster, adaptation, chase, rescue, introspection, danger, getting home, human nature ...
Time: 20th century
Place: long beach california, beijing china, mongolia
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39%
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scenic ...
Plot: survival, jungle, animal attack, dangerous animal, colonialism, adventurer, lion, danger, hunting, obsessive quest, heroes, creature feature ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 90s, 1890s
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Deliverance (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, rape, canoe, friendship, rape and revenge, nature, forest, camping, backwoods, revenge, hillbilly ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Operation E (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, social ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, jungle, captivity, rescue, escapades, race against time, rebellion, danger, confined, political unrest, baby ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.8
 3K
Monolith (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A mother and her son plan a surprise visit to Los Angeles to see her husband/his father. Halfway there they get into a terrible accident in the middle of nowhere and now must fight to survive.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, stylized ...
Plot: mother, son, suv, family relations, parents, relationships, female protagonist, child in peril, desert, canyon, survival, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 2K
China Gate (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: After witnessing the brutal slaying of her Forest Officer father, Sunder Rajan, at the hands of dreaded dacoit Jageera, Sandhya goes to Colonel Krishnakant Puri and asks for his assistance in bringing an end to Jageera's rule in the Devdurg ...
Style: powerful, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: military, french foreign legion, mission, village, mexican standoff, bandit, courage, evil man, mercenary, colonel, honor, cowardice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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True Grit (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), because he ...
Style: stylized, harsh, suspense, exciting, spaghetti western ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: revenge, bounty hunter, murder, manhunt, cowboy, hanging, texas ranger, reward, civil war veteran, teenage girl, alcoholic, justice ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: texas, oklahoma, arkansas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, friendship, stranded on an island, destiny, stranded, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss ...
Time: year 1997, 18th century
Place: fictional island, london, scotland, oceania, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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