Movies like True Romance
If True Romance's mix of hotel, parent child relationship and movie business stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what True Romance's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itWith Brad Pitt · Shares: detective, neo-noir · From the same decade (1990s)
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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Lone Wolf McQuade
1983 · Directed by Steve Carver · 107 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: parent child relationship, drugs · Also action and crime
The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead.
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Directed by Frank Miller · 102 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: detective, neo-noir · Also action and crime
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
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Repo Men
2010 · Directed by Miguel Sapochnik · 111 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: on the run, neo-noir · Also action and crime
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess…
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Assault on Precinct 13
1976 · Directed by John Carpenter · 91 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: intense · Also action and crime
A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
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Kiss of the Dragon
2001 · Directed by Chris Nahon · 98 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: drugs · Also action and crime
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
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French Connection II
1975 · Directed by John Frankenheimer · 119 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: detective · Also action and crime
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
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Wanted
2008 · Directed by Timur Bekmambetov · 110 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: intense · Also action and crime
Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a…
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The Replacement Killers
1998 · Directed by Antoine Fuqua · 87 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: on the run · Also action and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's…