Movies like Adrenaline Drive

If you like "Adrenaline Drive" you are looking for dark comedy, road movie and offbeat movies about / with yakuza, hospital, on the run, stolen money, heist, dark humor and on the road themes of Comedy genre shot in Japan.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Adrenaline Drive (1999)
 6.9
 954
Adrenaline Drive (1999)
Original name: アドレナリンドライブ
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
Style: dark comedy, road movie, offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, hospital, on the run, stolen money, heist, dark humor, on the road, love and romance, fugitives, fall in love, chase, chases and races, rivalry, down on your luck, strong female presence, nothing goes right, partner, disorder, odd couple, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, gangster, money ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: gangsters, partners

Movie in categories

yakuza movies
432
japan movies
3136
road movie movies
2308
hospital movies
7275
on the run movies
2658
heist movies
2556

Most similar movies to Adrenaline Drive

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about disorder, chases and races, partner, dishonesty, criminal heroes, nothing goes right and gangster mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Adrenaline Drive: Party 7 (2000), RPM (1997), My Secret Cache (1997), Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005), Omaha (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 6.2
 722
Party 7 (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: thief, chase, love and romance, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, betrayal, hitman, mistaken identity, sexual content, gangster, mentally unstable, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
Genre: Mystery, Action, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, manga, fast, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, superhero, samurai, sex, hitman, runaway, leaving home, escape, gangster, violent content, rivalry, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 3.6
 884
RPM (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, partner, car chase, cons and scams, disorder, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, chase, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, rivalry, crime gone awry ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A grand old Japanese hotel is trying to get a prestigious contract as the site of a summit meeting of important foreign officials. Unfortunately, this hotel is quite popular with the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters) and is a favorite target of theirs for ...
Style: witty, semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, japanese mafia, extortion, hotel, gangster, satire, unlikely criminals, danger, tough heroes, mistaken identity, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Movie in collections
dark humor movies
3562
90s movies
90s
7372
offbeat movies
5429
humorous movies
22119
My Secret Cache (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cash falling into a nearby river. For the remainder ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: kidnapping, violent content, stash, cave, chases and races, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, obsessive quest, contests and competitions, obsession, rivalry, crime gone awry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Shut Up and Shoot  Me (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: dark humor, partner, gangster, criminal heroes, misfit, hitman, friendship, disorder, buddies, death wish, death in the family, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, prague, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 5.2
 154
Omaha (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: From the co-founder of Slamdance comes the story of a young man who returns home from a trip abroad to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves and a roving gang of Iowa kickboxers, culminating in ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, student film
Plot: family relations, gang, chase, religions or cults, homecoming, on the road, cons and scams, martial arts, chases and races, self discovery, social misfits, on the run ...
Time: 90s
Place: nepal, nebraska, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.3
 2K
Monday (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A simple funeral turns a man's world upside down.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, life turned upside down, danger, disorder, dark humor, memory loss, chases and races, gang, coincidence, chase, asian ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Movie in collections
 5.0
 238
Zero to Sixty (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, car, odd couple, gangster, partner, friendship, chases and races, criminal heroes, fall in love, chase, disorder, couples ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Chasing My Girl (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Six guys wacky guys, who worked together at a summer beach bar job, come across a letter from dream girl Eriko. The letter isn't addressed to anyone in particular, but asks if the recipient would meet her at the beach bar on Christmas Eve. Each ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: friends, buddies, nothing goes right, rivalry, wooing, disorder, contests and competitions, mistaken identity, beach, battle of the sexes
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.5
 271
Kwik Stop (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two strangers discover you really can find anything at a convenience store -- even love. An aspiring actor stuck in a small town who has big plans of moving to Hollywood so he can strike it rich. One night, while on his way into a corner store, he ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, road movie ...
Plot: fall in love, odd couple, unlikely criminals, couple relations, couples, love and romance, on the road, aspiring actor, shoplifting, small town, business, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A cop and his expensive fiancée, a bank teller, plan the perfect bank robbery. All goes well until the FBI suspects, almost immediately, an inside job. Their plans to move the money out of the country, then just to cover their tracks, make them ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, reluctant partners, fugitives, police detective, disorder, beach, bank, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.7
 254
Mystics (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: elderly, cons and scams, partner, buddies, nothing goes right, dark humor, seance, scam, senior citizen, gangster, con artists, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.0
 24
Go, Masao! (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program. Until Hideki Matsumoto and the labrador ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: unlikely partners, friends, ambition, animal life, rising to stardom, pets, partner, nothing goes right, disorder, human animal relationship, struggling actor, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.6
 531
Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: nothing goes right, love and romance, supernatural ability, city life, urban, disorder, wizards and magicians, taxi, dark humor, dog, night
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.8
 506
Sticky Fingers (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: best friend, profanity, stash, strong female presence, city life, friends, disorder, screwball, chases and races, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, on the run ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.8
 9K
The Pest (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he ...
Style: humorous, absurd, semi serious, slapstick, intense ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: manhunt, chase, scam, survival, partner, hitman, disguise, escapades, most dangerous game, mafia, island, serial killer ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.8
 170
Diamond Zero (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the sawbones hires a pair of hapless thieves to collect the raw material, a string of calamities ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: hidden identity, crime gone awry, amateur detective, nothing goes right, heist, cons and scams, dishonesty, intrigue, unlikely criminals, buddies, criminal heroes, partner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Movie in collections
asia movies
2972
fugitives movies
681
chase movies
13045
Hot Under the Collar (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jerry tries to seduce his girlfriend Monica via hypnosis, but it accidentally makes her want to enter a convent and take a vow of chastity instead. Jerry tries to get her out by disguising himself to a priest and later as a nun. Alas, his rescue ...
Style: independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nun, couples, religions or cults, disorder, heist, love affair, convent, unfulfilled love, dishonesty, vengeance, love and romance, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.5
 324
Baby on Board (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: taxi, driver, chase, gangster, hitman, disorder, fall in love, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, chases and races, babies and infants ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Frits and Franky (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Frits & Franky find a lot of money in a car that crashes into the water. They don't know what to do with it.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good
Plot: gangster, unlikely criminals, family relations, chases and races, silly humor, nothing goes right, disorder
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.3
 265
Little Cigars (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: gangster, on the run, disorder, dishonesty, love and romance, unlikely criminals, rivalry, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, gang, chases and races, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.7
 3K
Sour Grapes (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Richie, a sneaker sole designer, and his cousin Evan, a brain surgeon, are spending this weekend with their girlfriends in Atlantic City. When one of them ends up with a $436,000 jackpot, sour grapes is what results. Even though Richie uses two ...
Style: humorous, intense, semi serious, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: gambling, casino, greed, friendship, unlikely friendships, stupidity, partner, dishonesty, nothing goes right, change of luck, dark humor, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
Happily Ever After (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic -- domestic violence -- in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the fiery temper, gambling and cruelty of her shiftless, ...
Style: stylized, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, odd couple, hopes, dark humor, misfit, social misfits, peplum, woman
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.1
 318
On the Run (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical ...
Plot: escape, vampire, friendship, on the run, fugitives, chases and races, nothing goes right, city life, prison, urban, dark humor, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.1
 548
White on Rice (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: 40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: family relations, couples, youth, fall in love, introspection, family life, love triangle, dating, dinosaur, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, samurai ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Living Wake (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: “The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, sentimental ...
Plot: nothing goes right, friends, odd couple, lifestyle, dark humor, partner, performer's life, misfit partners, hopes, daydreamer, social relations, last wish ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bumbling government employee accidentally destroys a small fortune and decides to break into the US Mint to replace it, but before long everyone wants a slice of the action - and the money.
Style: laugh out loud, retro, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: heist, deaf, caper, talk show host, business, safecracker, buddies, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, forgery, dishonesty, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Destiny Turns on the Radio (1995)
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem. Anything can happen in that town of many possibilities...especially ...
Style: road movie, talky, stylized, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime gone awry, heist, multiple storylines, expectant father, brutality, desert, partner, disorder, criminal heroes, gang, on the run, bank ...
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.1
 3K
Getting Any? (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A slapstick comedy, about a goofy middle-aged man who is obsessed with the idea of having car sex. While pursuing his 'dream', he makes all the wrong moves possible, and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
Style: sexy, not serious, humorous, offbeat, slapstick comedy ...
Plot: satire, armored car, silly humor, partner, obsession, goofy hero, buddies, couples, disorder, sexual relations, bank, filmmaking ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie