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The Corruptor (1999)
20K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
Style:
stylized, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, suspense, intercultural, cult classic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, gangster, police investigation, triad, murder, organized crime, police corruption, buddy cop, law enforcement, violent, chinese mafia, police, gunfight, danger, partner, partners against crime, culture clash, cop, dishonesty, gang war, mafia, violence, hitman, fbi, car chase ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, hong kong, san francisco
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about murder, law enforcement, violence, gunfight, revenge, shootout and police mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Corruptor: Black Rain (1989), Rapid Fire (1992), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), Year of the Dragon (1985), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, ...
Style:
exciting, neo noir, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, yakuza, police, culture clash, violence, gang war, motorcycle, chase, gunfight, gangster, fish out of water, japanese mafia ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
japan, new york, asia, osaka japan, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
Style:
exciting, cult classic, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens
Plot:
martial arts, gangster, police investigation, violent, police corruption, justice, gunfight, danger, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, fight scenes, murder ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa, beijing china, bangkok thailand ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
yakuza, martial arts, samurai, buddy cop, violent, organized crime, one man army, rescue, machismo, dark hero, lone hero, redemption ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, tokyo, asia, usa, japan ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows ...
Style:
detective, neo noir, controversial, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
chinese mafia, gangster, triad, organized crime, culture clash, vigilante, racism, murder, pig, chinawoman, gang war, tough cop ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
new york, china, southeast asia, thailand, bangkok thailand ...
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down a former Los Angeles police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer. Lorna Cole joins as the ...
Style:
saga, suspense, entertaining, action packed, action comedy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
buddy cop, vigilante, buddies, gangster, reluctant partners, cop, gunfight, armored car robbery, crooked cop, father son relationship, police officer, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's life. Afraid that Wei ...
Style:
exciting, cult classic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, vengeance, revenge, contract killer, hired killer, killer, professional killer, assassin, chase, female warrior, asian man white woman relationship, on the run ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 80s
Place:
china, los angeles, hong kong, asia, usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style:
stylized, black comedy, detective, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
aikido, police corruption, chase, undercover, bodyguard, martial arts, conspiracy, hand to hand combat, police investigation, violent, secret service, justice ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his Partner was someone's mistake, because he's now Out For Justice.
Style:
detective, neo noir, suspense, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, martial arts, psychopath, gangster, aikido, hitman, organized crime, mafia, car chase, serial killer, hand to hand combat ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, las vegas
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lawyer, police corruption, drug dealer, legal action, police investigation, bad cop, reluctant partners, dishonesty, buddies, partners against crime, law enforcement, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell. ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, reluctant partners, aikido, police investigation, murder, brutality, violence, hitman, buddy cop, justice, buddy, conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
hospital, revenge, vigilante, martial arts, vengeance, violence, hitman, one man army, coma, conspiracy, mixed martial arts, police corruption ...
Time:
year 1990, year 1983, 90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, california
Similarity:
100%
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, perverse, bloody, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroic bloodshed, triad, bloody violence, friendship, shootout, vigilantism, father daughter relationship, criminal underworld, brother brother relationship, good versus evil, gunfight, vengeance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong, china, new york, usa, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, surreal, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, organized crime, prison, violence, undercover agent, vengeance, revenge, mafia, death of wife, gangster, partners against crime, master criminal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A policeman takes his twin brother's place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, chase, vengeance, gangster, gunfight, heroes, car chase, undercover, hidden identity, switching roles, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, france, paris france, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Out-of-control, trash-talking buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force reunite, and bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the barrios of ...
Style:
entertaining, stylized, exciting, action packed, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
buddy cop, car chase, foul language, drug lord, buddies, partner, gunfight, chase, gangster, police, violent, vigilante ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, south america, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
236K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Style:
buddy comedy, action comedy, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
undercover, working undercover, money, cia, corruption, hidden identity, heist, organized crime, buddy, betrayal, partner, partners against crime ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, south america, mexico, california, seattle
Similarity:
100%
313K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate ...
Style:
humorous, buddy comedy, exciting, funny, action comedy ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddy cop, drug lord, murder, murder investigation, partners against crime, two man army, law enforcement, friendship between men, police corruption, police investigation, african american, working undercover ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, florida, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
25K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
Style:
detective, exciting, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disguise, corruption, gangster, manhunt, murder, faked death, car chase, witness protection, on the run, assassin, betrayal, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, geneva switzerland, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Coogan (Clint Eastwood) an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport he escapes and Coogan heads into the City to recapture him.
Style:
black comedy, light, exciting, cult classic, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
fish out of water, tough cop, investigation, one against many, love interest, desert, motorcycle chase, maverick cop, chase, lovers on the run, police, gunfight ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
arizona, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Chinese immigrant to America is sucked up into the Chinese underworld when he finds greater acceptance in the arms of a small gang.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
car accident, kidnapping, christmas, sex scene, prostitution, martial arts, love, police corruption, fleeing, cinema, travel, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong, new york, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, suspense, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
undercover, undercover cop, blaxploitation, murder, police investigation, gangster, drug, betrayal, organized crime, racial slur, black, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, cleveland ohio, ohio, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
undercover, prison, murder, organized crime, revenge, investigation, redemption, vengeance, tough heroes, one last job, crime boss, ex convict ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. ...
Style:
neo noir, grindhouse, grim, cynical, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, mobster, gangster, exploitation, black, cop, car chase, big city, nypd, tough guy, police officer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, north america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Style:
suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, conspiracy, aikido, undercover, heroic bloodshed, corruption, drug dealing, vengeance, drug lord, police, vietnam war, kung fu ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, vietnam, usa, illinois, las vegas ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of ...
Style:
bloody, cult classic, detective, intense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
gun fu, gunfight, undercover, violent, gangster, martial arts, organized crime, mafia, heroic bloodshed, partnership, triad, buddy cop ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, hostage, chase, tough law enforcer, stewardess, terrorist, master criminal, danger, fighting crime, working undercover, violence ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, north america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, undercover, partner, police corruption, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger, fighting crime, police investigation, master criminal, partners against crime, tough guy ...
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In lawless storm ravaged New Orleans, eleaguered Detective Sean Riley is trying to cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment of his wife. Facing a probable suspension from the department, Riley is teamed with a young homicide ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
partner, undercover, gunfight, police investigation, serial murder, danger, dishonesty, tough cop, death of son, revenge, brutality, espionage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities ...
Style:
perverse, retro, crime drama, action adventure, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, buddy cop, crime boss, hand to hand combat, kidnapping, rescue, shootout, blood, two man army, drug lord, violence, hostage ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
hong kong, new york, asia, usa, china ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, gang, chase, investigation, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
28%
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