Movies like Driven to Kill
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Driven to Kill (2009)
6K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A former Russian mobster named Ruslan, who is now a crime novelist, returns home and discovers his daughter is marrying his arch nemesis. His past also comes back to haunt him when his family is threatened. Hungry for justice, Ruslan returns to the life he once knew...with a vengeance.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, bloody, action packed, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, vigilantism, rivalry, danger, haunted by the past, family relations, revenge, save the day, getting home, going straight, aikido, erotica, serial killer, police officer, writers, martial arts, heroes, one man army, profanity, chases and races, manhunt, family in danger, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, russian
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Most similar movies to Driven to Kill
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about gun, gunfight, martial arts, shootout, violence, hand to hand combat and fistfight mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Driven to Kill: The Equalizer (2014), Born to Raise Hell (2010), A Dangerous Man (2009), Out for Justice (1991), Body Armour (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
461K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspense, brutal, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, corruption, hitman, assassin, one man army, gunfight, justice, lone hero, violence, loner, revenge ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston, moscow russia, massachusetts, usa, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and ...
Style:
serious, rough, tense, suspense, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, special agent, tough heroes, law enforcement, loss of partner, chases and races, danger, revenge, brutality, martial arts, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, bucharest, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After serving 6 years for a crime he didn't commit, Shane Daniels is released from jail with an apology from the State of Arizona. Within hours of his freedom, he unluckily bears witness to a cop killing by Chinese mafia who have a kidnapped ...
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
profanity, wrongful conviction, danger, confined, rivalry, police officer killed, save the day, assassination attempt, false accusation, chase, corrupt cop, crooked cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
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:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
hitman, assassin, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, murder, gunfight, violent content, heroes, vengeance, profanity, shootout ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, investigation, car, murder, mind game, special agent, race against time, law enforcement, rivalry, martial arts, vigilante, chases and races ...
Place:
memphis, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, spiritual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, vengeance, law enforcement, martial arts, assassination, fbi, gangster, tough heroes, undercover, master criminal, danger, race against time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, thailand, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former thief who is trying to go straight seeks vengeance on those who framed him.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, betrayal, heroic bloodshed, prison, criminal heroes, frame up, dishonesty, martial arts, fistfight, gangster, violence, prison riot ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, reluctant partners, terrorist, chase, hostage, daring rescue, save the day, police investigation, master criminal, unlikely partners, tough law enforcer, danger ...
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marshall Lawson is the commander of an elite military unit. Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack, and he takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia and his ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, law enforcement, tough heroes, violence, serial killer, heroes, secret agent, criminal's revenge, investigation, undercover, police investigation, uncover truth ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, heroes, gangster, one man army, tough heroes, danger, gang, death, vigilante, payback, kidnapping, prostitute ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Roland Sallinger is an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas, after being asked to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, gangster, daring rescue, ex-cop, law enforcement, race against time, vengeance, rivalry, one man army, ransom, gunfight, businessman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new mexico, san antonio texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, drug dealing, danger, going straight, criminal heroes, hitman, tough heroes, prison, violence, prisoner, organized crime, martial arts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
martial arts, terrorist, gangster, save the day, gang, danger, rivalry, gory, crime boss, murder, hostage, organized crime ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia, bucharest, romania, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, martial arts, prison, good versus evil, prisoner, frame up, chinese mafia, organized crime, gangster, murder, vengeance, one against many ...
Place:
hong kong, china, paris france, asia, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, aikido, gambling, murder, life is a bitch, danger, downfall, redemption, introspection, dishonesty, one man army, sniper ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
action thriller, exciting, intense, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, revenge, vengeance, assassin, professional killer, contract killer, corruption, brutality, mercenary, violent, organized crime, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2012, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Colonel Robert Sikes is on a mission to rid his city of crime. As a stealthy, one-man assault team, he will take on street gangs, mobsters, and politicians with extreme prejudice until his mission is complete. His former protégé, William Porter, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
bare breasts, stripper, vigilante, danger, brutality, murder, anti hero, sociopath, gangster, tough guy, fbi agent, chase ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A deadly virus threatens to wipe out an entire Rocky Mountain town, leaving the town doctor to find some way to escape the soldiers who enforce the town's quarantine and devise an antidote. Matters take a more deadly turn after the physician is ...
Style:
melancholic, exciting, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, small town, doctor, death, violence, epidemic, chase, virus, one against many, indians, native american, immunity ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
montana, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
John, is sent in to recover a stolen Stealth Bomber. His trusty sidekick Rojar and John's ever faithful Jessica, fight the rebel forces of Banansistan, led by the vivacious Ellianna.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorist, martial arts, betrayal, terrorism, tough heroes, lesbianism, soldier, espionage, chases and races, secret agent, escapades, undercover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, spy, secret agent, martial arts, one man army, good versus evil, on the run, race against time, heroes, political conspiracy, murder, danger ...
Place:
france, europe, poland, germany, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, suspense, freeze frame, independent film ...
Plot:
police detective, martial arts, rescue, betrayal, brutality, chase, aikido, violence, murder, death, security guard, caper ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france, houston texas
Similarity:
100%
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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: 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, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, undercover, heroes, espionage, one man army, save the day, tough heroes, secret agent, terrorism, race against time, danger, master criminal ...
Place:
europe, romania, bucharest
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens
Plot:
prison, undercover, gangster, tough heroes, female assassin, female agent, female killer, adaptation, secret agent, one man army, vengeance, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Hong Kong, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
Style:
brutal, intense, harsh, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, violence, muay thai, one man army, fight, medieval, chase, kung fu, martial arts tournament, gangster, lone hero, violent ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, asia, bangkok thailand, tokyo, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides ...
Style:
serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
childhood trauma, violence, vigilante, vengeance, vigilantism, policewoman, dead mother, pimp, criminal, murder, haunted by the past, lone wolves ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In the tradition of Grindhouse, Kill Bill and Sin City, award-winning comic book writer Ed Brubaker (Incognito, The Death of Captain America, Daredevil) teams up with stuntwoman-turned-cult star Zoe Bell (Death Proof, TV's "Lost") to ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
female assassin, female fighter, hitman, assassin, contract killer, danger, rivalry, heroes, woman in danger, badass female lead, organized crime, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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