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Mantis (2025)
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Original name: 사마귀
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Mantis, an ace assassin, returns to the contract killer industry after a hiatus, encountering his trainee friend Jae-yi and a retired legendary killer Dok-go, who now runs the organization.
Style:
suspenseful, crime thriller, tense, suspense, dark, noir, bleak, neo noir, melancholic, psychological thriller
Audience:
adult
Plot:
assassin, hitman, contract killer, violence, gunfight, mature, moral ambiguity, underworld, anti hero, revenge, betrayal, organized crime, loyalty, ruse, power struggle, urban, trainee, redemption, cat and mouse, training, urban setting, retirement, criminal syndicate, hand to hand combat, friendship ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
seoul, east asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, suspenseful and noir films with plots about revenge, betrayal, urban, hitman, moral ambiguity, underworld and organized crime mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Mantis: Fast Charlie (2023), Fighter Shiva (2025), Ultimate Target (2000), Code Name Banshee (2022), John Caster (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
colombia, latin america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
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Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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27%
Genre: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
london
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller, Action
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When your in The Syndicate you're in for life. This is the prospect facing Matthew Palmer, a hearless but efficient, deadly but impeccably neat assassin and confirmed Michael Caine fan. But Palmer has found love and wants out, even though he ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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