Movies like Switchblade Sisters (1975)
The best movies like Switchblade Sisters (1975) are The New Kids (1985), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983). If Switchblade Sisters hooked you with its action and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Outsiders (1983)7.2/10 from 1,642 votes
- NewestThrashin' (1986)Released 1986
The New Kids (1985)
A brother and his young sister come to a small town to find out a local gang terrorizes the population.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRumble Fish (1983)
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Outsiders (1983)
In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOver the Edge (1979)
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisClass of 1984 (1982)
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVigilante (1983)
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. When a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, he goes berserk and vows revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)
Mayhem starts when a gang of bikers is accused of a sadistic rape in a small town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Reckless (1984)
Teenager Johnny Rourke is reckless. Born on the wrong side of the tracks, he breaks the law and girls' hearts with equal cool. Cheerleader Tracey Prescott is reckless too. She dumps her conventional life and boring boyfriend to follow Johnny wherever his dangerous path leads.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Naked Vengeance (1985)
After witnessing her husband's brutal murder, Carla travels to her parents' home in a small mountain town to start over. When she's repeatedly harassed by redneck locals, Carla seeks help from the town sheriff but is met with indifference. This continues until Carla's finally attacked, raped, and her parents executed by the twisted townies. Carla, after escaping a mental hospital, resolves to get bloody revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Hells Angels on Wheels (1967)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisBobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
Aimless country girl Bobbie Jo Baker abandons her carhop job to join Wild West outlaw wannabe Lyle Wheeler for an adventure in theft, mayhem, and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSavage Streets (1984)
Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches for deadly vengeance against the gang members who assaulted her deaf-mute sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisGo Ask Alice (1973)
A 15-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Tenement (1985)
A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Alley Cat (1984)
After her grandparents are savagely attacked, Billie uses her knowledge of martial arts to begin dishing out her own brand of vigilante justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lady in Red (1979)
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisMalibu High (1979)
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Jackson County Jail (1976)
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Band of the Hand (1986)
An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHandgun (1983)
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAngel (1984)
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThrashin' (1986)
Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into any real trouble. Notorious enemy crew the Daggers, led by Tommy Hook, get their kicks terrorizing the locals at Venice Beach. When Corey starts dating Tommy's kid sister Chrissy, the Daggers are furious. The boys then take their beef to the "L.A. Massacre," a deadly skate race down a canyon road.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBig Bad Mama (1974)
Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Big Bird Cage (1972)
Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisTeenage Hitchhikers (1974)
Mouse and Bird are a couple of sassy and sexy young hitchhikers who embark on a cross country trip in search of freedom, excitement, and independence. The lovely ladies use their bodies as currency and encounter a diverse array of libidinous folks on their journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Caged Heat (1974)
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Loveless (1984)
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Switchblade Sisters?
The closest matches to Switchblade Sisters are The New Kids (1985), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Switchblade Sisters?
People who watched Switchblade Sisters most often go on to The New Kids (1985), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983).
What is the highest-rated movie like Switchblade Sisters?
The Outsiders (1983), rated 7.2/10 by 1,642 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Switchblade Sisters?
Thrashin' (1986) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Switchblade Sisters?
Yes: The New Kids (1985), Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983).
How are movies similar to Switchblade Sisters chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Switchblade Sisters, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.