Movies like Crank

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Crank (2006)
 6.9
 262K
Crank (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
Style: intense, exciting, dark comedy, cult classic, action thriller, entertaining, stylized, semi serious, humorous, clever ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: hitman, revenge, vengeance, dark humor, tough heroes, assassin, one man army, lone hero, gory, car chase, cell phone, poison, drug, gunfight, gangster, heart, outdoor sex, violence, public nudity, violent, fight scenes, danger, rescue, female nudity, street gang ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, iran, usa, north america, united states of america
Keyword: gangsters, reboot, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to Crank

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, cult classic and rough films with plots about violence, blood splatter, death, gangster, murder, revenge and pistol mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Crank: Crank: High Voltage (2009), John Wick (2014), The Transporter (2002), Hitman (2007), Wanted (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crank: High Voltage (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
Style: stylized, entertaining, grindhouse, absurd, surreal ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: tough guy, revenge, violence, one man army, assassin, hitman, lone hero, gangster, gunfight, nudity, mixed martial arts, stripper ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: John Wick is on the run for two reasons… he’s being hunted for a global $14 million dollar open contract on his life, and for breaking a central rule: taking a life on Continental Hotel grounds. The victim was a member of the High Table who ...
Style: brutal, exciting, tense, suspense, harsh ...
Audience: adult
Plot: one man army, vengeance, gunfight, criminal's revenge, tough guy, murder, shooting, hitman, danger, martial arts, rescue, assassin ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019
Place: new york, north africa, grand central station manhattan new york city, morocco, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 734K
John Wick (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Style: stylized, exciting, neo noir, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: hitman, vengeance, revenge, one man army, vigilante, assassin, gunfight, shooting, lone hero, tough guy, killer, dog ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 60s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.8
 320K
The Transporter (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, sexy, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: car chase, chase, one man army, tough guy, lone hero, martial arts, transportation, tough heroes, fight scenes, escapades, car, smuggling ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, europe, saint tropez, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Hitman (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic ...
Style: serious, exciting, action packed, stylized, fast paced ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: hitman, killer, sniper, one man army, assassin, danger, assassination, fight scenes, revenge, computer game, conspiracy, cia ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: soviet union, europe, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.7
 407K
Wanted (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Doormat Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently murdered father – who Wesley never knew – belonged to a secret guild of assassins. After a leather-clad sexpot drafts Wesley into the society, he hones his innate killing skills and turns avenger.
Style: exciting, action packed, entertaining, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: hitman, gunfight, revenge, assassin, femme fatale, mentor, escapades, car chase, betrayal, twists and turns, mission, superhuman powers ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.6
 155K
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
Style: bloody, sexy, action packed, grindhouse, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, dark humor, corruption, anti hero, one man army, assassin, blood, shootout, hitman, senator, rescue, machismo ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.1
 176K
Transporter 3 (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe ...
Style: exciting, road movie, serious, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, one man army, car, martial arts, tough guy, tough heroes, mercenary, chase, driving, fistfight, murder, heroes ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: europe, budapest, france, odessa ukraine, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, lone hero, chase, assassin, tough guy, murder, killer, assassination, criminal's revenge, mercenary, martial arts, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, usa, cambodia, bangkok thailand, southeast asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 60K
Wild Card (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.
Style: suspenseful, brutal, stylized, intense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, greed, revenge, brutality, tough heroes, betrayal, martial arts, redemption, gambling, dishonesty, mafia, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 152K
Smokin' Aces (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Style: dark comedy, action packed, clever, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: hitman, assassin, gunfight, gangster, sniper, violent, multiple storylines, disguise, killer, violence, violence spree, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, nevada, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 399K
Face/Off (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look like the agent so he can get close to the agent's ...
Style: exciting, suspense, stylized, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, revenge, prison, fbi, transformation, violence, master criminal, hidden identity, switching bodies, murder, undercover, death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 129K
Parker (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, thief, tough heroes, fight scenes, betrayal, mafia, revenge, assassin, romancing a criminal, car chase, happy ending ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa, ohio, new orleans ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 204K
Wrath of Man (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate ...
Style: suspense, humorous, action thriller, hood, crime drama ...
Plot: revenge, heist, crime boss, lone hero, fighting crime, security guard, working undercover, robbery, criminal gang, gang, father son relationship, fight ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.5
 171K
The Mechanic (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But ...
Style: clever, stylized, brutal, tense, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, assassin, chase, mentor, lone hero, loner, martial arts, tough guy, vengeance, revenge, deception, arms dealer ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, colombia, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.3
 214K
Transporter 2 (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Professional driver Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policymaker and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank ...
Style: sexy, action packed, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lone hero, martial arts, car chase, kidnapping, fight scenes, weapons, car, driver, explosions, gunfight, driving, mentor ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bullet to the Head (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Style: exciting, intense, brutal, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, revenge, corruption, assassin, organized crime, tough law enforcer, conspiracy, betrayal, murder, police corruption, brutality, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, future, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 117K
Safe (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, action packed, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, organized crime, chase, gunfight, lone hero, protector, ex military, on the run, mafia, tough heroes, revenge, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, iran, brooklyn new york city, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
 197K
Desperado (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner.
Style: stylized, grindhouse, action packed, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, lone hero, dark hero, hitman, vigilante, one against many, gangster, gory, musician, badass, gunfight, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 363K
The Expendables (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church ...
Style: exciting, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: gunfight, martial arts, tough guy, mercenary, sniper, chase, machismo, assassin, showdown, military, fistfight, shootout ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: latin america, new orleans, somalia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 170K
The Punisher (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, vengeance, vigilante, lone hero, vigilantism, violence, superhero, tough guy, one man army, comic hero, mafia, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2003
Place: florida, puerto rico, virginia, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 71K
El Mariachi (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi ...
Style: grindhouse, action packed, cult classic, stylized, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mistaken identity, gangster, revenge, vigilante, violence, gunfight, guitarist, modern western, assassin, hitman, small town, machine gun ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 312K
Death Proof (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Style: road movie, sexy, grindhouse, suspense, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, violence, exploitation, dark humor, revenge, car chase, vengeance, killer, stalking, stuntman, violent ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tennessee, texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Boondock Saints (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: With a God-inspired moral obligation to act against evil, twin brothers Conner and Murphy set out to rid Boston of criminals. However, rather than working within the system, these Irish Americans decide to take swift retribution into their own hands.
Style: suspense, neo noir, entertaining, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, mafia, revenge, vengeance, violent, shooting, fbi, vigilante, gunfight, morality, hitman, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 112K
Faster (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has spent the last 10 years in prison planning revenge for the murder of his brother. Now that Driver is free to carry out his deadly plan only two men stand in his way- Billy Bob Thornton plays a veteran cop and Oliver ...
Style: stylized, brutal, intense, talky, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, girls' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, lone hero, vigilante, corruption, hotshot, justice, ex convict, revenge, vigilantism, brutality, gangster, gratuitous violence ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: iran, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
Style: stylized, grindhouse, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: drug lord, gangster, violent, revenge, assassination attempt, hitman, dark hero, vengeance, murder, assassin, gunfighter, spy ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 49K
A Man Apart (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when ...
Style: suspense, harsh, emotional, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, vigilantism, drug cartel, vigilante, drug, lone hero, justice, gang, gangster, violence, corruption, brutality ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: mexico, los angeles, usa, california, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 73K
Romeo Must Die (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead … or worse!
Style: intense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, gang war, gangster, kung fu, prison escape, murder, true love, revenge, hip hop, fight scenes, fight, investigation ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, hong kong, california, usa, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 77K
Hummingbird (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
Style: exciting, emotional, serious, atmospheric, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, redemption, gangster, ex military, haunted by the past, homeless, tough heroes, revenge, mafia, fight scenes, weapons, vigilante ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: england, london, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 13K
Coffy (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Style: grindhouse, hood, sexy, neo noir, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vigilante, revenge, gangster, female exploitation, tough girl, violence, vigilantism, exploitation, addiction, black, murder ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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