Movies like Shatter

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Shatter (1974)
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Shatter (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.
Style: psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, poliziottesco
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, killer, assassin, murder, professional, hitman, master warrior, assassination, vampire, heroes, undercover, espionage, chases and races, vengeance, rivalry, danger, working undercover, law enforcement, lone wolves, police investigation, siblings relations, government agency, dishonesty, wrongfully committed, battle zone ...
Time: 70s
Place: hong kong, england, china, asia, europe, africa
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Shatter

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and exciting films with plots about rivalry, law enforcement, gangster, deadly, violence, murder and dishonesty mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Shatter: Duel of the Iron Fist (1971), Golgo 13 (1977), Heroic Duo (2003), Double Tap (2000), Kung Fu Jungle (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duel of the Iron Fist (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Tan Jen-chieh’s life spins out of control when he’s forced into exile to clear his name following the murder of his adopted father. He’s hunted in the streets. His lover, Butterfly, turns to prostitution. And his father’s likely killer – a ...
Style: bloody, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, fight, wuxia, violent content, gangster, righting the wronged, tough heroes, self defense, rivalry, heroes, vengeance ...
Time: 1900s
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 595
Golgo 13 (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His main obstacle is the relentless Detective ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, martial arts, yakuza, assassination, superhero, killer, triad, female assassin, assassin, sniper, karate, drug cartel ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: asia, tokyo, kyoto japan, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.8
 882
Heroic Duo (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tough cop Ken Li (Cheng) is at the top of his game, but he's going to need some help to solve a grisly crime that the offender, a respected police officer, doesn't even remember committing. He seeks out Jack Lai (Lai), a former ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, chase, investigation, hypnosis, undercover, police investigation, dishonesty, haunted by the past, police corruption, memory loss, martial arts, frame up ...
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.6
 1K
Double Tap (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leslie Cheung plays Rick Pang, an IPSC champion who is also a gun expert who modifies his pistols to perfect his technique known as 'double tap', placing two shots in the same exact spot. In the 1996 IPSC Hong Kong shooting competition, ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, heroic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, police detective, murder, police investigation, vengeance, law enforcement, master criminal, danger, rivalry, contests and competitions, heroic bloodshed, triad ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Kung Fu Jungle (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
Style: exciting, stylized, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, serial killer, police investigation, prison, good versus evil, character study, heroes, psychopath, master warrior, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.5
 133
The First Shot (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During a period of widespread police corruption, Ti Lung is a stubborn cop who takes on both the mob and the political establishment.
Style: heroic, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, law enforcement, kung fu, gunfight, dirty cop, martial arts, undercover cop, corruption, murder, gangster, police detective, betrayal ...
Time: 70s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A restaurant owner his ex-con brother and a policeman team up to avenge the murder of his old friends daughter by the Triad.
Style: neo noir, stylized, bloody, perverse, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, gunfight, vigilantism, good versus evil, friendship, bloody violence, criminal underworld, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, shootout, vengeance ...
Time: 80s
Place: china, hong kong, new york, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
My Father is a Hero (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An undercover cop struggling to provide for his son and ailing wife, must infiltrate a ruthless gang. But things turn sour when another cop blows his cover and he quickly finds himself battling for his life and the lives of his family.
Style: cult classic, scenic, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, tough heroes, fight, triad, fight club, fight scenes, karate, epic battle, monster, wuxia, wu shu ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Nowhere to Hide (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Over the next 72 days, Detective Woo will push his skills to the limits and his team of cops to the edge as they conduct a manhunt for an elusive criminal. Woo takes the law into his own hands as the hunt becomes personal, and as his target may get ...
Style: stylized, neo noir, fast, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, kung fu, gangster, chase, police, cop, police detective, manhunt, partner, law enforcement, vengeance, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: seoul, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 1K
Tiger Cage (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Something fishy is going on in the anti-Drug Trafficking Unit of the HK Police, and only a few honest cops know that the corruption goes all the way to the top. However, they must prove their case quickly, and by unconventional means, after they are ...
Style: bloody, cult classic, heroic, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic bloodshed, kung fu, police officer, fight club, police, gangster, betrayal, police corruption, frame up, partner, police detective ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
 3K
Dog Bite Dog (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young Cambodian man who has been trained to fight for money in his country is hired to kill someone in Hong Kong. He performs the hit and then flees from Hong Kong police, who are wrestling with internal problems of a model cop and his son, who is ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: hitman, chase, martial arts, on the run, vengeance, law enforcement, danger, good versus evil, life is a bitch, heroic bloodshed, violence, triad ...
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Legendary Assassin (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An assassin who is fresh from his latest kill becomes stranded in an island, when he inadvertently befriends a female police officer. As the night progresses, the unspoken truth honored by the two sides of the law is broken. After the remains of a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police investigation, mysterious character, on the run, gang, friendship, law enforcement, moral dilemma, rivalry, medieval, hitman, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Style: neo noir, bloody, cult classic, intense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heroic bloodshed, triad, gunfight, organized crime, police, yakuza, mafia, mobster, hate, criminal underworld, crime boss ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, future, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, asia, taiwan, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.5
 1K
Hong Kong 97 (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Hong Kong 97 takes place in Hong Kong right before the transfer of power from Britain to China. Reginald Cameron, an assassin affiliated with a large corporation with interests in the colony, guns down key members of the Chinese envoy which will ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, heroes, hitman, male nudity, disaster, best friend, dishonesty, chases and races, life is a bitch, escapades, survival, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: hong kong, china, england, asia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.7
 1K
Triad Wars (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the midst of a violent gang war, a series of misfortunes threaten the fate of a gang boss and his mob.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, betrayal, kidnapping, police investigation, hitman, gangster, vigilantism, vengeance, dishonesty, criminal heroes, danger, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
 1K
Divergence (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A cop, a lawyer, and an assassin cross paths after the murder of a federal witness and the kidnapping of a famous pop star.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, undercover, police investigation, law enforcement, partners against crime, heroes, dishonesty, police corruption, hitman, police detective, partner, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.9
 464
Double Bang (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigation, undercover, hidden identity, working undercover, dishonesty, law enforcement, fighting crime, police corruption, master criminal, vengeance, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Long Arm of the Law: Part 2 (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This sequel to the critically-acclaimed box-office winner Long Arm of the Law maintains the same stark realism of the original. In Saga Two, the Royal Hong Kong Police put into operation a new plan to counteract the problem of increasing violent ...
Style: heroic, crime drama, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, hostage, gangster, betrayal, chase, hitman, social misfits, danger, confined, drug dealing, heroes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Shadows in an Empty Room (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, revenge, murder, psychopath, police corruption, university, heist, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, exploitation, police chase ...
Time: 70s, year 1976
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.2
 10K
Exiled (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, hitman, friendship, starting over, heroic bloodshed, vengeance, dishonesty, danger, frame up, babies and infants, crime boss, triad ...
Time: year 2006
Place: east asia, china, macau
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.7
 3K
Yes, Madam! (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum), two petty thieves who inadvertently become involved in a murder case when they steal items belonging to a murdered man. The man had hidden an important microfilm in his passport, which the thieves pass ...
Style: stylized, suspense, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, female martial artist, gangster, police investigation, police corruption, women, police detective, espionage, fish out of water, undercover, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, asia, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
PTU: Police Tactical Unit (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over the course of one night, a team of cops frantically search for their colleague's missing gun.
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police detective, gang, investigation, partners against crime, goofy hero, rivalry, murder, tough law enforcer, master criminal, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Fulltime Killer (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's ...
Style: tense, harsh, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, killer, gunfight, dark hero, police detective, assassin, danger, rivalry, heroic bloodshed, fall in love, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, hong kong, china, asia, malaysia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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American Yakuza (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitaire, he is hired to operate forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia leaded by Dino Campanela and ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, cynical, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, martial arts, mafia, organized crime, tough heroes, undercover agent, japanese mafia, heroes, samurai sword, murder, showdown, hitman ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 3K
The Crew (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, dishonesty, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, gangster, brother brother relationship, lesbian, organized crime, british gangster, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
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City War (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two cops--both partners and best friends--find their friendship and their lives at stake when they try to take down a ruthless drug dealer.
Style: heroic, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, revenge, arms smuggling, police, criminal, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, rivalry, partners against crime, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.6
 1K
Rain Fall (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police officer, hitman, law enforcement, rivalry, dishonesty, danger, chases and races, tough heroes, chase, police, conspiracy, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, new york, asia, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 14K
Flash Point (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, non stop action ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, drug lord, kung fu, fighting crime, fight, police investigation, gang, danger, rivalry, working undercover, vigilantism, arrest ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
China Strike Force (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Chinese Security Officer, Darren, is called for Team 808, which fights against the smuggling of drugs and corruption. Noriko, a Japanese Interpol officer, collaborates with Darren for the destruction of a large international drug cartel. At ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, revenge, murder, police investigation, partner, partners against crime, gang, gangster, secret agent, race against time, undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia, new york, china, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Colour of the Truth (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, police corruption, snitch, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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