Movies like Throttle
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Throttle (2005)
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Every day, millions of people descend into underground parking garages, get into their cars and drive to the safety of their homes. But tonight, five levels down in a deserted corporate parking structure, financial analyst Tom Weaver won't be going home.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stalking, survival, isolation, rivalry, confined, on the run, master criminal, frame up, danger, serial killer, panic, terror, automobile, die hard, hostage, chase, chases and races, car chase, underground, mind game, psychopath, race against time, deadly, garage, mystery ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Throttle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense and realistic films with plots about danger, deadly, rivalry, chases and races, chase, survival and confined mostly in Thriller, Action and Horror genres. Some movies like Throttle: Black Cadillac (2003), Jane Doe (2001), Backwoods (2008), Race Against Time (2000), Detour (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant.
Style:
serious, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
car chase, mind game, friendship, escapades, danger, chase, survival, murder, rivalry, killer car, redneck, car ...
Time:
21st century
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100%
826
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A woman's son is snatched and she must follow his kidnappers’ instructions to get him back. But when she’s framed for murder by a government department, she must take them on at their own game to ensure her son's survival.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, kidnapping, woman in danger, murder, on the run, disorder, mistaken identity, danger, secret agent, righting the wronged, good versus evil, law enforcement ...
Place:
montana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
While camping in Jasper Park up North California, the couple Tom Alan Smithee and Gwen Marie Holden are attacked by a group of strangers; Tom is immediately killed and Gwen is abducted by the men to an underground facility to breed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
backwoods, redneck, psychopath, survival, danger, on the run, gory, wilderness, expedition, torture, attempted rape, serial killer ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
north carolina, los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the bills. However, when he is advised that the doctors want to claim his organs immediately, he ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hospital, on the run, race against time, chase, rivalry, fugitives, danger, self sacrifice, father son relationship, terminator, star wars, organ transplant ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
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839
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Driving home from a deep desert rave, seven teenage friends travel off the beaten path only to be trapped in a reality far more horrible and frightening than any nightmare they could possibly imagine...Flesh eating cannibals roam this stretch of ...
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, survival, sex, redneck, youth, isolation, danger, gory, escapades, mine, eating human flesh ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ex cop, murder, psychopath, investigation, femme fatale, rivalry, police detective, police, revenge, police officer, serial killer, xmas ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the money is hidden but instead leads them into a trap at a backwoods crystal-meth factory. The gangsters ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
on the run, manhunt, 007, meme, gangster, disorder, rivalry, master criminal, crime gone awry, chases and races, danger, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
399
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A feared Chinese Tong soldier goes undercover in America as an Asian Internet bride.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, exciting, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, martial arts, working undercover, ghost, computers and web, disability, hitman, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, police investigation, law enforcement, danger ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
100%
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962
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The highway to hell runs straight through a college campus in this compelling thriller about a killer truck. After helping a pretty co-ed out of a nasty domestic situation, Jim Travis gives the girl a lift home. But once on the road, the situation ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic
Plot:
chase, stalking, danger, psychopath, on the road, college life, serial killer, automobile, chases and races, rivalry, woman in danger, college ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
missing person, serial killer, psychopath, woman in danger, survival, obsession, confined, isolation, captivity, danger, master criminal, rivalry ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mind control, brainwashing, political conspiracy, manhunt, government agency, rivalry, undercover, investigation, uncover truth, supernatural ability, dishonesty, murder ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other, live across the hall on the second floor. Galia is an assassin involved against her will with the local sex-traffic mafia. All she wants is to reunite ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hitman, female assassin, russian mafia, assassin, female fighter, chase, woman in danger, on the run, rivalry, danger, friendship, disobey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ukraine, israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Zambia, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, changing the past or future, time loop, back in time, on the run, heroic mission, destiny, hostage, heroes, rivalry, race against time ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs ...
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, martial arts, psychopath, abusive husband, police investigation, murder, danger, master criminal, law enforcement, rivalry, vengeance, infidelity ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, dark, scary ...
Plot:
danger, stalking, isolation, confined, friendship, wilderness, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, survival, blood, new year ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate assassin, implanting gun parts in her body that she must later assemble and use to kill her target before she bleeds to death.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
woman with a gun, female assassin, sex club, murder of a nude woman, revenge, nude fight, master criminal, vengeance, violence spree, good versus evil, danger, rivalry ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Plot:
hostage, vengeance, hitman, love affair, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, criminal heroes, couples, family problems, special agent, sniper ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
los angeles, usa, israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, daring rescue, missing person, danger, confined, race against time, crime gone awry, survival, escapades, rivalry, ransom ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Four assassins meet in a hotel suite to resolve unfinished business. A tense drama set in the cosmopolitan world of Hong Kong.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
hitman, rivalry, hotel, danger, professional killer, murder, assassin, martial arts, woman with a gun, killer, chinese mafia, triad ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, crime gone awry, drug dealing, survival, chase, isolation, danger, escapades, chases and races, disorder, on the run, deathtrap ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Terrorists steal the only cure to a deadly virus that has been unleashed in Africa.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, race against time, danger, chases and races, jungle, evil man, virus, die hard, boat, martial arts, heroes, kidnapping ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, danger, uninhibited rivalry, chases and races, on the road, car, carsploitation, rape, stalking, chase, desert, psychopath ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An environmentalist gets involved in transporting an accused killer (Ben) from an isolated Alaskan town to the authorities. Ben is determined to escape, and his fellow trappers are ready to help
Style:
suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
buddies, die hard, wilderness, environmentalist, struggle for survival, prison life, isolation, prison, heroes, rivalry, chases and races, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a long night at the office, an accountant stops to help an injured motorist and ends up becoming the target of two dangerous assassins.
Style:
suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, survival, police corruption, law enforcement, special agent, dishonesty, chases and races, on the run, frame up, murderous pair, accountant, assassin ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, absurd
Plot:
zombie, survival, plague, bio weapon, violence spree, chaos, danger, isolation, confined, experiment gone awry, race against time, contamination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
754
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal's revenge, master criminal, heist, danger, race against time, psychopath, car chase, car thief, serial killer, chases and races, woman in danger, chase ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, undercover, terrorism, woman in danger, on the run, save the day, rivalry, survival, witnessing a crime, race against time, espionage, escapades ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A former firefighter and Special Forces officer takes on a team of murderous terrorists when the oceanliner he's working on is hijacked shortly after leaving port. Hired to evaluate security on a luxury cruise ship, blaze battler and former ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, escapades, hijacking, rescue, chase, rivalry, save the day, race against time, ship, danger, die hard ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, terrorism, daring rescue, rescue, save the day, heroes, danger, tough heroes, master criminal, one man army, aviation, air disaster ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dallas, Andrew, his girlfriend Taryn and Reese compose of the DNA Team in an Internet game where the objective is to find treasures in hidden caches. While searching the last treasure to beat the game's record score, they are chased by two ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, survival, treasure hunt, danger, rivalry, frame up, gory, love affair, fall in love, computers and web, contests and competitions, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
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