Movies like The Hunter 2010

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The Hunter (2010)
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The Hunter (2010)
Original name: شکارچی
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.
Style: exciting, tense, bleak, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, islamic, slow cinema, aesthetic ...
Plot: murder, ex convict, isolation, law enforcement, vengeance, mind game, confined, criminal heroes, woods, jungle, accidental killing, arrest, revenge, iranian, nightshift, forest, death, abandoned house, shooting, rivalry, criminal's revenge, prison escape, hunting, soldier, car chase ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: iran

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, rivalry, vengeance, danger, law enforcement and dishonesty mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Hunter: Monster (2014), Blood Crime (2002), Sea of Lies (2008), Waste Land (2014), Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Monster (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Bok-Soon (Kim Go-eun-I) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Bok-Soon may not be the brightest girl but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in uncontrollable rage. She’s infamously known as the “psycho ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, vengeance, police investigation, psychopath, rivalry, murder, asian prostitute, gangster, assassination, criminal heroes, law enforcement, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
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Blood Crime (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, police investigation, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, small town, mistaken identity, nypd, violent content, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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Sea of Lies (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 180 min.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: murder, false accusation, escape, prison life, life is a bitch, frame up, confined, dishonesty, prison, disappearance, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Waste Land (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, life turned upside down, murder, law enforcement, mental illness, pregnancy
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains ...
Style: neo noir, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: telephone call, death, kidnapping, violent content, confined, mind game, criminal heroes, dishonesty, investigation, on the run, false accusation, injustice ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, barcelona, spain
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89%
The Last Ride (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After thirty years in prison, ex-con Ronnie recruits his grandson to exact revenge on Darryl, the cop who put him behind bars. Standing in their way is Ronnie's son, whom Darryl raised.
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, street racing, ex convict, chase, car chase, released from prison, law enforcement, rivalry, parents and children, murder, danger, reconciliation ...
Time: year 1970
Place: usa, san diego california
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Blame (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: vengeance, assassination attempt, haunted by the past, injustice, rivalry, danger, vigilante, revenge, teacher student relationship, suicide, postman, isolated house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Come Morning (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Set in rural Arkansas in 1973, Come Morning is the tragic story of Frank and his 10-year-old grandson and the hunting accident that forever changes their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: woods, coming of age, countryside, father son relationship, hunting, corpse, death, manslaughter, danger, youth, country, dead body ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: arkansas
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85%
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Sunday in the Country (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, tense, exciting, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: canuxploitation, vengeance, torture, vigilante, farm, country, vigilantism, vigilante justice, psychopath, countryside, bank, captivity ...
Time: 70s
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The Prophet's Game (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: murder, riddles and clues, investigation, chases and races, vengeance, danger, obsession, death of daughter, uncover truth, ex cop, judiciary, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Perfect Wife (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot: revenge, murder, psychopath, femme fatale, serial killer, couples, family problems, dishonesty, couple relations, infidelity, female killer, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Treed Murray (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot: gang, mind game, vengeance, danger, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency, rivalry, politics, tree, mugging, criminal heroes, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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85%
The Night of the Sunflowers (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The body a teenage girl is discovered in a field of sunflowers. At the same time a travelling salesman watches the events unfold on television, whilst in the small village of Angosto the discovery of a prehistoric cave brings excitement and the ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, bleak, rough, thrilling ...
Plot: police investigation, murder, isolation, vengeance, social relations, countryside, revenge, murder mystery, cave, psycho, neighbor neighbor relationship, salesman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Absolute Deception (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, manhunt, undercover, investigation, special agent, danger, chases and races, law enforcement, dishonesty, couple relations, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, australia, hong kong, cuba
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84%
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The Zone (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, twisted, hispanic ...
Plot: murder, vengeance, heist, vigilantism, slum, escape, militia, coming of age, isolation, danger, confined, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2007
Place: mexico, latin america
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A Killer Within (2004)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered ...
Style: suspenseful, mind bending, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot: murder, husband wife relationship, who done it, legal, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal action, false accusation, murder investigation, female bartender, female nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time: 21st century
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Last Screening (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, danger, psychopath, theater, small town, murder, violence, mentally unstable, solitary, woman in danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Toxic (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, violence spree, criminal's revenge, vengeance, sexual content, murder, strip club, prostitute, nightclub, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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83%
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The Mortician (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: mortician, murder, haunted by the past, redemption, danger, emotionless, social decay, corpse, black, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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The Fighter (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style: neo noir, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, ex convict, female pubic hair, diamond, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, vengeance, chase, criminal's revenge, on the run ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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The Gunman (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, investigation, vengeance, police detective, haunted by the past, serial killer, law enforcement, danger, psychopath, murder, who done it ...
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The American Trap (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: One of the greatest conspiracies of all time, and one lone man is trying to uncover it.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: assassination, dishonesty, trap, dictator, mafia, cia, cuban revolution, law enforcement, conspiracy, female nudity, president, john f. kennedy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, russia, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Axed (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
Style: slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, psychopath, family in danger, rivalry, confined, isolation, parents and children, countryside, profanity, murder, crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Manuscripts Don't Burn (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot: assassination, politics, political corruption, political conspiracy, kidnapping, moral dilemma, murder, conspiracy, state affairs, mission gone awry, emotionless, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Blackmail (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Inspector Abhay Rathod is a honest and diligent Police Inspector employed with Bombay Police. He was assigned the case of racketeer and criminal don, Shekhar Mohan. Abhay successfully entraps and arrests him, and has him sentenced to a long jail ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: criminal, prison, police, law enforcement, friendship, parents and children, tough heroes, family relations, criminal's revenge, danger, tough law enforcer, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Pavement (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, vengeance, animal life, amateur detective, obsessive quest, police investigation, danger, psychopath, law enforcement, haunted by the past ...
Place: south africa, usa, san francisco, alaska, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Bad Karma (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, revenge, murder, vengeance, criminal's revenge, going straight, criminal heroes, frame up, husband wife relationship, ex convict, robbery, drug use ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
A Table for One (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: erotica, home invasion, mind game, infidelity, murder, bigamy, couples, family problems, obsession, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.2
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Blind Witness (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.
Style: spooky, realistic, slasher, serious, psychological ...
Plot: murder, danger, chases and races, stalking, dealing with death, law enforcement, criminal heroes, disability, psychopath, woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, caucasian ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 3.8
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Viktor (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Russia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, neo noir
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, gangster, criminal heroes, rivalry, chases and races, revenge, brutality, violence, ex convict, murder, countryside, political conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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