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Plot Summary:
At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader’s girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, sincere, atmospheric, feel good, humorous, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Point Doom (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood talent agent's girlfriend thrusts him into a world of strip clubs, drugs and deadly motorcycle gangs.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, neo noir, independent film
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Road to Paloma (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a brutal injustice occurs on a Native American reservation, a son must find redemption for the actions of his past. Road to Paloma is the beautiful journey of two bikers traveling across America's vast west. While Native American Wolf (Jason Momoa) is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash (Robert Mollohan), a down and out musician who is coping with the end of his marriage. An unlikely friendship develops, as they ride together towards the Teton mountain range, where Wolf will spread his mothers ashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, realistic, retro, independent film
Similar in 84%
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Plot Summary:
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, detective, mind bending, neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, splatter
Similar in 75%
Hell Ride (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hell Ride is a 2008 feature film from Larry Bishop being released under the “Quentin Tarantino Presents” banner. The film promises to be a blood and sex-soaked tale of motorcycle revenge and retribution.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: entertaining, talky, grindhouse, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, stylized, retro, action packed
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Angels Hard as They Come (1971)
Plot Summary:
A group of crazy bikers meet up with a group of drug-addicted hippies in a small town, but the two roving factions are soon at odds with one another and chaos ensues.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, witty, semi serious, independent film, humorous
Similar in 77%
Nam's Angels (1970)
Plot Summary:
Some bikers are hired by the CIA during the Vietnam War to rescue a captured agent from the clutches of the Red Chinese army. After a round of drinking, fighting, and whoring around, the cycle gang, led by Big Bill Smith, fix up their Yamahas with machine guns, grenades and armor plating, and storm the enemy camp.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Angel Unchained (1970)
Plot Summary:
Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 86%
The Glory Stompers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Chino is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get violent when Darryl comes back for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Wild Riders (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two juvenile delinquents break into a luxury house where they rape two women. They settle in the house, sell the valuables and kill a curious neighbour.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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She-Devils on Wheels (1968)
Plot Summary:
An all-female motorcycle gang, called 'The Maneaters' hold motorcycle races, as well as terrorize the residents of a small Florida town, and clash off against an all-male rival gang of hot-riders.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, grindhouse, campy, cult film
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The Savage Seven (1968)
Plot Summary:
Biker gang leader Kisum (Adam Roarke) loves waitress Marcia Little Hawk (Joanna Frank). Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk (Robert Walker, Jr.), the leader of a group of American Indians disapproves. At various times these two groups are adversaries and allies. The two groups join forces but crooked businessmen scheme to have them at each other's throats again. The theme song "Anyone for Tennis" is by Cream. The Iron Butterfly are heard playing their classic "Iron Butterfly Theme." Producer Dick Clark and director Richard Rush made "Psych-Out" earlier in the year.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 86%
Hell's Belles (1969)
Plot Summary:
When hot-headed Dan out-drives the thoroughly vicious Tony in a motorcycle race and wins a brand new bike, he sets in motion a chain of events that includes one blazing gas station and a disastrous rock slide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, period piece, independent film, road movie, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Naked Angels (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mother has just got out of prison and wants to get revenge on the biker gang that put him there. He teams up with his old gang "The Angels" and they head to the desert to get even. Soon, Mother's obsession begins to take it's toll on his relationship with his girlfriend, Marlene, and the respect his gang has for him quickly dwindles until he is left alone in the desert to fend for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, psychotronic, independent film, hot
Similar in 77%
The Born Losers (1967)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless motorcycle gang rides into a California town and terrorizes its denizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, hood, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Wild Angels (1966)
Plot Summary:
Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of Hell's Angels chapter from Venice, California while Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, psychedelic, hood, cult classic, independent film, realistic
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Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
The bikers are the heroes and the lawmen are the villains in this vintage action drama. The Spirits are a motorcycle club who ride the highways and country roads of Michigan; while they look rough, wear beat-up denim and favor Harley Davidsons, the Spirits are good guys at heart, more likely to help a stranger change a flat tire than rough him up. Northville Cemetery Massacre is a 1976 motorcycle exploitation film written and directed by William Dear and Thomas L. Dyke. Nick Nolte did an uncredited voice over for the film's lead actor, David Hyry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dead in 5 Heartbeats (2013)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm of desert life. When war erupts between his brothers he left behind and the rival Hooligans, Patch rides back into town to either make peace or do battle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 84%
Devil's Angels (1967)
Plot Summary:
An exiled band of Hell's Angels strike a bargain with the Sheriff of a local town, let them stay and the town is safe. But a local girl strays into their lair and sparks off a full scale Angel war.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
Plot Summary:
It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro (Don Johnson), learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, cult classic, futuristic, tense, stylized, semi serious, fast, buddy comedy
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Trip with the Teacher (1975)
Plot Summary:
A high-school field trip takes a nightmarish turn when the students' bus breaks down and thugs come to their aid.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, erotic, scary, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
Similar in 79%
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, neo noir, bleak, stylized, harsh, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, road movie
Similar in 88%
Blood and Wine (1996)
Plot Summary:
A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, melancholic, serious, clever, suspenseful, intense, cult classic, thrilling, atmospheric
Similar in 79%
The Boys Next Door (1985)
Plot Summary:
Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trial of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, road movie, controversial, cult classic, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Colors (1988)
Plot Summary:
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, hood, psychological, exciting, serious, cult classic, crime drama, retro, thought provoking, neo noir
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Plot Summary:
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 286000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: harsh, captivating, psychological, stylized, neo noir, suspense, gloomy, melancholic, atmospheric, crime thriller
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Menace II Society (1993)
Plot Summary:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, realistic, stylized, hood, rough, serious, harsh, intense, bloody
Similar in 81%
Wild at Heart (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: surreal, road movie, black comedy, avant garde, dark comedy, sexy, atmospheric, erotic, art house, mindfuck
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Easy Rider (1969)
Plot Summary:
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychedelic, avant garde, cult classic, offbeat, independent film, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy, realistic
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Mean Streets (1973)
Plot Summary:
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, atmospheric, realistic, bleak, independent film, serious, rough, suspenseful, dark
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The Departed (2006)
Plot Summary:
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, clever, tense, captivating, serious, neo noir, psychological, mind bending