Movies like Chameleon

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Chameleon (1995)
 5.9
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Chameleon (1995)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Style: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, murder, master criminal, chases and races, rivalry, drug dealing, working undercover, law enforcement, good versus evil, government agency, dishonesty, death in the family, criminal heroes, partners against crime, dealing with death, couple relations, secret agent, special agent, violent content, mafia, revenge, agent, split personality, fbi, money laundering ...
Time: 90s, 20th century

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Most similar movies to Chameleon

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about rivalry, deadly, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, chases and races and murder mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Chameleon: Two Shades of Blue (1999), Fatal Instinct (1992), Double Bang (2001), High Voltage (1998), Bad Karma (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Two Shades of Blue (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Susan Price has written a #1 bestseller, a steamy novel about a woman's search for the ultimate sexual experience entitled, "The Dark Side of Judith." When Susan is framed for the murder of her fiance, billionare publisher Jack ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, realistic ...
Plot: murder, undercover, danger, frame up, dishonesty, woman in danger, life turned upside down, protagonist as suspect, deaf, voyeurism, disabled, phone sex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 484
Fatal Instinct (1992)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A homicide detective (Michael Madsen) falls for a resort owner (Laura Johnson) suspected of slaying a playboy developer.
Style: neo noir, independent film, sexy, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: strong sexual content, porn actress, serial killer, murder, violent content, profanity, couples, law enforcement, police detective, sexual relations, dangerous attraction, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 4.5
 710
High Voltage (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, criminal heroes, disorder, danger, chases and races, gangster, shootout, crime gone awry, rivalry, law enforcement, good versus evil, bank ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 4.6
 1K
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 ⇓
100%
Nowhere to Land (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, save the day, special agent, danger, chases and races, law enforcement, heroes, aviation, race against time, disaster, ex husband ex wife relationship, die hard ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s
Place: usa, australia, california, oceania, new south wales ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 654
Avalanche (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Duncan (Hasselhoff) is a murderous thief. When he jumps out of his plane, it crashes into the Rockies and produces an avalanche. A quiet family trapped inside their house will rescue him. They will have to survive the disaster and the madman.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mountain, winter, against the odds, snow, youth, rescue, rocky mountains, heroes, crime gone awry, danger, rivalry, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 428
Detonator (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former FBI agent must stop a crazy man from blowing up bombs.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, save the day, one man army, special agent, master criminal, danger, vengeance, race against time, rivalry, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 3.8
 443
The Lost Angel (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style: suspense, scary, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, crucifix, law enforcement, danger, investigation, murder, dealing with death, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, who done it, female pubic hair, church ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 1K
Tough Luck (2003)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A tense and intricate web of deceit and betrayal entangles Archie, a wandering grifter who is hired by a traveling carnival owner to murder his beautiful wife.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, murder, frame up, betrayal, crime gone awry, hitman, cons and scams, femme fatale, dishonesty, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, criminal heroes ...
Place: usa, new orleans, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Breach of Trust (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: For opposite reasons, an undercover federal agent and a small time hood join forces to take on a union of drug lords and dirty cops.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cartel, rogue agent, car chase, gunfight, computer, gangster, secret agent, partner, investigation, criminal's revenge, partners against crime, on the run ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 925
Cold Steel (1987)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, psychopath, ex cop, investigation, rivalry, femme fatale, police detective, serial killer, xmas, revenge, police, police officer ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 424
BitterSweet (1999)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a world filled with love and deception, the truth is always bittersweet.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, prison, rivalry, law enforcement, vengeance, dishonesty, betrayal, unlikely partners, frame up, wrongfully committed, woman, male female relationship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 828
Blowback (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Whitman is a psychotic religious killer who was caught by Inspector Morell a former seminarian, whose religious knowledge led to Whitman's capture. Whitman was tried and sentenced to death. However, he was rescued by a secret government group ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, psychopath, religions or cults, danger, undercover, violence spree, law enforcement, race against time, partners against crime, legal ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.1
 323
Time Lapse (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working undercover, save the day, undercover, memory loss, dishonesty, government agency, terrorism, political corruption, danger, rivalry, political conspiracy, antidote ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
On Dangerous Ground (1996)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen ...
Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, spy, terrorism, special agent, secret agent, violent content, conspiracy, rivalry, state affairs, race against time, working undercover, political conspiracy ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, england, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into ...
Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, chase, revenge, desert, waitress, female nudity, stripper, repressed memory, violent content, parents and children, homecoming, family life ...
Time: year 1993, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.9
 295
Countdown (1996)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, die hard, police investigation, chases and races, rivalry, undercover, mind game, terrorism, law enforcement, crime gone awry, manhunt, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Movie in collections
 5.3
 662
Zero Tolerance (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told ...
Style: suspense, independent film, fast, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: die hard, vigilantism, murder, drug abuse, violent content, gangster, special agent, hitman, tough heroes, drug dealing, master criminal, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.7
 482
Blindside (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected ...
Style: retro, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: espionage, murder, scientist, hotel, xmas, surveillance, canuxploitation, dishonesty, undercover, rivalry, drug dealing, intrigue ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 2.9
 181
Safehouse (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot: rescue, special agent, law enforcement, intrigue, danger, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance, mafia, revenge, kidnapping, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.9
 2K
The Heavy (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gangster, betrayal, sibling rivalry, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, violence, gang, mafia, violent content, rivalry, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
 2.9
 1K
Hangmen (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. Connelly's men try to kill Greene, but he can escape ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, terrorism, tough heroes, psychopath, working undercover, undercover, rivalry, state affairs, one man army, tough law enforcer, espionage, assassination attempt ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Murder in the Central Committee (1982)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, biting
Plot: murder, investigation, private detective, private investigator, agent, cia, communist party, kgb, nudity, violent content, secret agent, politics ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
 441
Protection (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hidden identity, going straight, starting over, criminal heroes, gangster, special agent, rivalry, vengeance, crime gone awry, dishonesty, danger, hitman ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.5
 896
Dead Drop (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, betrayal, danger, tough heroes, dishonesty, chases and races, master criminal, working undercover, revenge, car chase, spy, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Born to Be King (2000)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Triad member Chicken is designated by Taiwan's San Luen Gang to marry Nanako, the daughter of the fifth generation leader of the Yamada Gang in Japan. Later, the leader of the triad group gets murdered. Actually, all the San Luen Gang members ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, criminal heroes, gang, criminal's revenge, master criminal, rivalry, vengeance, triad, mafia, yakuza, partner, violent content ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, taiwan, china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.5
 245
Modus Operandi (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two briefcases with mysterious contents are stolen from top Presidential candidate Squire Parks, setting off a deadly series of double-crosses and betrayals. Desperate warring factions of subterranean organizations will stop at nothing to gain ...
Style: serious, suspense, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: betrayal, working undercover, vengeance, espionage, secret agent, undercover, rivalry, danger, revenge, investigation, murder, spy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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