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Breaking (2022)

Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.

Directed byAbi Damaris Corbin

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  1. 01

    The Last Stop in Yuma County

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 90 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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    While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-gotten fortune.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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    STRAW

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 105 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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    What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the breaking point — and into a shocking act of desperation.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  3. 03

    Dead Man's Wire

    Similar atmosphere

    2026 · 106 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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    In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  4. 04

    Rebel Ridge

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 131 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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    A former Marine confronts corruption in a small town when local law enforcement unjustly seizes the bag of cash he needs to post his cousin's bail.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  5. 05

    The Undertaker

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 89 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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    A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a growing number of corpses.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  6. 06

    Aftermath

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 95 min · Action · Thriller

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    A returning war veteran, stricken with PTSD, gets trapped with his teenage sister on Boston's Tobin Memorial Bridge when a heavily armed group of ex-military revolutionaries take everyone hostage.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
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  7. 07

    Jolt

    Genre overlap

    2021 · 91 min · Action · Crime · Thriller

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    A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  8. 08

    Black Butterfly

    Strong story similarity

    2017 · 93 min · Drama · Mystery · Thriller

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    Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
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  9. 09

    Penitent

    Strong story similarity

    2017 · 74 min · Crime · Drama

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    After being imprisoned for dangerous driving, causing the death of a child and possession of illegal substances, Jason Buckley is finding it difficult to adjust to life outside prison.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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    Mercy

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 85 min · Action · Mystery · Thriller

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    An ex-military doctor finds herself in a deadly battle for survival when the Irish mafia seize control of the hospital at which she works. When her son is taken hostage, she is forced to rely upon her battle-hardened past and lethal skills after realizing there’s no one left to save the day but her.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • a closely matched era
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Film Atlas combines story similarity, movie metadata and TMDB relationship signals. Shared studios can support a match; audience and film-format safeguards help avoid poor fits. The explanations above come from the engine’s recorded evidence—not invented reviews.

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