Movies like The Contractor 2007

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The Contractor (2007)
 5.4
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The Contractor (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Former CIA Operative, James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, frame up, manhunt, betrayal, assassination, heroes, murder, friendship, danger, on the run, law enforcer killer, spy, mixed martial arts, one man army, black hero, police officer, conspiracy, political conspiracy, train travel, friends, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty, terrorism ...
Time: contemporary
Place: england, iraq, london, usa, europe, montana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and exciting films with plots about shootout, violence, pistol, tough guy, heroes, chases and races and martial arts mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Contractor: The Way of War (2009), Shooter (2007), Moving Target (1996), Deadly Outbreak (1995), The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Way of War (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: state affairs, danger, terrorism, assassination, political conspiracy, political corruption, dishonesty, government agency, military, race against time, political intrigue, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba, washington d.c., middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Art of War III: Retribution (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When international diplomacy comes up short, extreme measures must be taken. In the newest installment of The Art of War, Agent Neil Shaw (Treach) is on a covert mission to stop North Korean terrorists from obtaining a nuclear bomb. But when the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, un, martial arts, heroes, protagonist as suspect, race against time, undercover, mysterious character, master warrior, danger, save the day, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, usa, asia, new york, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 353K
Shooter (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why.
Style: intense, exciting, suspense, action packed, political ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: sniper, conspiracy, fbi, one man army, on the run, corruption, assassination, revenge, cover up, manhunt, military, false accusation ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: montana, philadelphia, virginia, tennessee, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
 475
Moving Target (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A bounty hunter with a pregnant wife who is urging him to get a regular job gets framed for murder and trapped in a war between Russian gangsters.
Style: suspenseful, serious, intense, independent film, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, chase, hand to hand combat, murder, gangster, fugitives, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal's revenge, on the run, master warrior, violence ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Deadly Outbreak (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dutton Hatfield, played by Jeff Speakman, is working for the American embassy. He finds himself inside a biochemical weapon laboratory when terrorists headed by Colonel Baron (played by TimeCop villain Ron Silver) take over the place. Baron is ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: computer cracker, virus, heroes, terrorism, die hard, tough heroes, master criminal, save the day, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, bio weapon ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: pentagon, washington d.c., israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, martial arts, assassination, heroes, on the run, murder, conspiracy, politics, manhunt, protagonist as suspect, rivalry, undercover ...
Place: british columbia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.9
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Unstoppable (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, unstoppable, antidote, on the run, investigation, law enforcement, special agent, secret agent, working undercover, dishonesty, race against time, master criminal ...
Place: europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Silent Trigger (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.
Style: suspense, bloody, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, sniper, assassin, soldier, killer, terrorism, mercenary, heroes, showdown, kickboxing, violence, one man army ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Detonator (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, terrorism, undercover, on the run, woman in danger, save the day, survival, espionage, race against time, witnessing a crime, rivalry, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Storm Catcher (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered ...
Style: realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, conspiracy, heroes, terrorist, state affairs, dishonesty, political conspiracy, false accusation, confined, rivalry, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ 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 ⇓
29%
 4.9
 483
Running Red (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Plot: martial arts, spy, behind enemy lines, terrorism, one against many, gunfight, home invasion, heroes, soldier, assassination, starting over, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 107K
Colombiana (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, vengeance, revenge, female killer, vigilante, one against many, assassin, tough girl, haunted by the past, female protagonist, strong female lead ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 1992, 90s, 21st century
Place: colombia, chicago, latin america, south america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 316K
The Fugitive (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, detective, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, on the run, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, investigation, fugitives, death row, doctor, manhunt, corruption, fugitive ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 1K
Sharpshooter (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, betrayal, sniper, conspiracy, on the run, danger, save the day, special agent, race against time, manhunt, rivalry, undercover ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.7
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Terminal Rush (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of terrorists, led by a Brit and a psycho (in a great performance by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper) take control of the Hoover Dam and demand $25 million or they will kill civilians and dam workers they have taken hostage. But the terrorists ...
Style: cliffhanger, independent film, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, wrestling, die hard, martial arts, one man army, heroes, terrorism, violent content, frame up, hijacking, haunted by the past, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Foreigner (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This story is about a freelance agent (Seagal) who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, secret agent, martial arts, spy, good versus evil, heroes, on the run, race against time, danger, undercover, espionage, government agency ...
Place: france, europe, poland, germany, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.0
 460
Special Ops (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an American soldier’s Black Ops Unit is ambushed during a raid to rescue a nano-nuclear device that has fallen into the wrong hands, he must run for his life to not only track down the missing device, but also clear his name when he is ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, terrorism, soldier, danger, heroic mission, dishonesty, escapades, rivalry, daring rescue, military, race against time, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Most Wanted (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col Grant Casey. Their mission is to neutralize criminals who had ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political conspiracy, frame up, manhunt, investigation, on the run, assassination, death row, conspiracy, sniper, false accusation, bomb, parachuting ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.7
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The Art of War (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When ruthless terrorists threaten to bring down the United Nations, they frame the one man they believe can stop them: an international security expert named Shaw. Now he must run from his own allies and become a solitary force for good, as he tries ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, espionage, martial arts, murder, political conspiracy, secret agent, mafia, gunfight, car chase, heroes, translator, frame up ...
Time: y2k, year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist ...
Style: cult classic, action adventure, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, assassin, tough guy, killer, martial arts, vigilante, serial killer, torture, 007, payback, violent, villain ...
Time: 80s
Place: holland, europe, latin america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 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 ⇓
23%
The President's Man: A Line in the Sand (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A counterterrorism specialist is assigned by the President to track down a terrorist who is suspected of planning to set off a nuclear device in the U.S.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorist, terrorism, one man army, law enforcement, heroes, undercover, race against time, good versus evil, confined, secret agent, nuclear bomb, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, texas, usa, chicago, illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Hour of Valor (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, one man army, political conspiracy, state affairs, law enforcement, confined, undercover, race against time, save the day, danger, secret agent ...
Place: washington d.c., france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.1
 3K
Hard Luck (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, gangster, drug dealing, chase, danger, dishonesty, partner, psychopath, hitman, car chase, drug abuse, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
 945
Rage of Honor (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Singapore.
Style: retro, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, medieval, mixed martial arts, drug lord, shootout, explosions, law enforcement, undercover, dishonesty, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.1
 5K
The Marksman (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, black american, military, sniper, soldier, heroes, rescue, frame up, heroic mission, daring rescue, political conspiracy, race against time ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Game of Death (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: CIA agent Marcus is sent undercover to Detroit to take out an arms dealer and the head of the hedge fund that is financing him. His CIA backup has other plans and turns on him, and it's a fight to survive in a hospital and into the hedge fund ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, cia, assassination attempt, hitman, hospital, rivalry, dishonesty, confined, violent content, spy, murder, gunfight ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: michigan, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms, and eventually ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, spy, corruption, disobeying orders, undercover, police, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, british intelligence, missing person ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, united kingdom, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.8
 231
Midnight Man (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soldier, undercover, spy, anglo irish relations, ira, terrorism, british monarchy, assassination attempt, violent content, hitman, militant, royal family ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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