Movies like Reservoir Dogs

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   Pulp Fiction

   Same director

   1994 · 154 min · Comedy · Crime · Thriller

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   A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • several principal cast members

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   Jackie Brown

   Same director

   1997 · 154 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Johnny Handsome

   Strong story similarity

   1989 · 94 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared heist movie style

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   Bottle Rocket

   Strong story similarity

   1996 · 91 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama

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   Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: based on short film and heist
   • shared heist movie style

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   Raising Arizona

   Strong story similarity

   1987 · 94 min · Comedy · Crime

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   When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared heist movie style

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   Heat

   Similar atmosphere

   1995 · 170 min · Action · Crime · Drama

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   Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

   Why it connects

   • strong shared themes: betrayal and gang
   • shared heist movie style
   • a closely matched era

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   Blue Streak

   Strong story similarity

   1999 · 93 min · Action · Comedy · Crime

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   Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared heist movie style
   • shared theme: thief

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   The Ref

   Strong story similarity

   1994 · 97 min · Comedy · Crime · Drama

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   A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared heist movie style
   • shared theme: thief

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   Wild at Heart

   Similar atmosphere

   1990 · 125 min · Crime · Romance · Thriller

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   Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared heist movie style
   • a closely matched era

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    Kalifornia

    Strong story similarity

    1993 · 118 min · Crime · Thriller

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    A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

    Why it connects

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

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