Movies like The Real McCoy

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   The River Wild

   Strong story similarity

   1994 · 111 min · Adventure · Drama · Thriller

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   Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared heist movie style
   • shared genre DNA

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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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   Pups

   Strong story similarity

   1999 · 99 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   When troubled teen boy Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy) and his girlfriend, Rocky (Mischa Barton), attempt to rob a bank without any forethought, the situation rapidly deteriorates. Soon the young couple is holding bank customers and employees hostage, while law enforcement gathers outside. Daniel Bender (Burt Reynolds), a veteran negotiator for the FBI, is charged with assessing the crime scene and ending the standoff as quickly as possible, but Stevie's short fuse considerably complicates matters.

   Why it connects

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

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   Wedlock

   Strong story similarity

   1991 · 101 min · Action · Crime · Science Fiction · TV Movie · Thriller

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   A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.

   Why it connects

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

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   High Heels and Low Lifes

   Strong story similarity

   2001 · 86 min · Action · Comedy · Crime

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   Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared heist movie style
   • shared theme: bank robbery

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   Small Time Crooks

   Strong story similarity

   2000 · 94 min · Comedy · Crime

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   A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared heist movie style
   • shared theme: bank robbery

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   The Lookout

   Strong story similarity

   2007 · 99 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

   Why it connects

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

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   No Good Deed

   Strong story similarity

   2002 · 97 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller

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   While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.

   Why it connects

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

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   Running on Empty

   Strong story similarity

   1991 · 92 min · Action · Crime · Drama · History

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   Based on a true story, and recreated from the personal account of one of the robbers, the film follows an immigrant from mainland China in 1975 as he works with a team to plan to rob an armored car carrying seven million dollars from the Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong.

   Why it connects

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

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    Three Fugitives

    Strong story similarity

    1989 · 96 min · Comedy · Crime

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    On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared heist movie style
    • shared theme: bank robbery

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