Movies like The Eliminator
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The Eliminator (2004)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed crashes and explosions. Varley tries to leave the lake and collect his prize money but is drugged and kidnapped by Dawson and thrown into a different world: a world where survival means everything and no-one follows the rules. Surrounded by heavily-armed men, he soon learns that he and six other victims have been assembled to be contestants in the ultimate survival game: they will be hunted nightly by hunters with rifles until there is one remaining survivor, who will win a $10,000,000 cash prize!
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed, independent film, serious, realistic, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, martial arts, survival, heroes, one man army, one against many, chase, island, rivalry, danger, escapades, contests and competitions, survivor, mixed martial arts, jungle adventure, killing, master warrior, game of death, kidnapping, chases and races, confined, tough heroes, violent content, combat, fight ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Eliminator
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about martial arts, shootout, gunfight, heroes, gun, fistfight and danger mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Eliminator: Deadly Prey (1987), Ballistica (2009), The Hard Corps (2005), Death Train (2003), Maximum Conviction (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and ...
Style:
fast, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, dojo, martial artist, home invasion, die hard, gangster, hostage, master warrior, heroes, heroic mission, danger, forgery ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ...
Style:
cult classic, perverse, retro, psychotronic, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, mercenary, swamp, kidnapping, death of wife, serial killer, badass, sex crime, exploitation, buddies, gunfight, fistfight ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man has been trained in a deadly form of hand-to-hand combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one of the few Americans who has perfected it, which makes him the CIA's best weapon against International Terrorism.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, one against many, terrorism, danger, undercover, heroic mission, battles, escapades, rivalry, showdown, covert operation, spy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, one against many, one man army, heroes, athlete's life, tough heroes, vengeance, rivalry, gang, gunfight, corrupt cop, violence ...
Place:
british columbia, middle east, iraq, afghanistan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, one man army, tough heroes, save the day, on the run, hostage, undercover, danger, train, one against many, gunfight, die hard ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, soldier, military, heroic mission, martial arts, danger, master warrior, heroes, daring rescue, betrayal, military base, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When former black ops operative Tom Steele and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, martial arts, partner, chase, rescue, confined, tough heroes, master warrior, on the run, danger, jail, die hard ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
texas, oregon, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, marine, vengeance, chases and races, tough heroes, gangster, danger, master warrior, rivalry, urban ghetto, fight, shooting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A repo man tries to deliver a repossessed Jaguar. He's captured by a bizarre family, straight out of the backwoods, who force him to fight in an illegal, bare-fist tournament run by an insane sheriff.
Style:
suspense, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hicksploitation, chase, master warrior, one man army, murder, martial arts, mad scientist, contests and competitions, law enforcement, ambition, tough law enforcer, heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
39%
179
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
American Police officer Jack Hazard heads for South America after being ordered to take time off by his boss after a raid goes bad. Once there, however, he finds himself caught up with a stranger wanted by the government, and soon ends up in prison. ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
jungle, martial arts, heroes, on the run, violent content, profanity, psychopath, undercover, chases and races, law enforcement, stalking, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latin america, south america
Similarity:
38%
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, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
bodyguard, hitman, one man army, cia, assassination attempt, hospital, dishonesty, rivalry, confined, violent content, murder, profanity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
michigan, detroit
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, scary, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
wilderness, survival, mountaineer, kidnapping, hunt down, extreme sport, forest, hiking, rescue, group of friends, kidnapper, poacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, britain, europe, seattle
Similarity:
100%
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:
terrorist, disaster, wrestling, die hard, martial arts, terrorism, heroes, one man army, violent content, hijacking, haunted by the past, frame up ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, prison, world war, heroes, one man army, violent content, jungle, heroic mission, captivity, military, soldier, daring rescue ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Don "the Dragon" Wilson is a man pursued. Branded a cop-killer, he must fight simply to stay alive, and to clear his name... with the very police who framed him.
Style:
independent film, suspense
Plot:
manhunt, kickboxing, exploitation, pistol, blood, fistfight, duel, mixed martial arts, one against many, hand to hand combat, art, kung fu ...
Similarity:
34%
686
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, secret agent, undercover, law enforcement, confined, race against time, danger, save the day ...
Place:
washington d.c., france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, secret identity, tough heroes, confined, danger, special agent, professional killer, murder, tough guy, hitman, female nudity, chinese mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, vancouver, british columbia, hong kong
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcée mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
daughter, profanity, fugitives, tough heroes, survival, danger, hostage, father daughter relationship, forest, border patrol, martial arts, computer cracker ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas, montana, canada, reno nevada
Similarity:
34%
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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, terrorist, tough guy, conspiracy, heroes, one man army, dishonesty, state affairs, political conspiracy, false accusation, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
34%
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, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, unstoppable, antidote, on the run, investigation, law enforcement, working undercover, danger, dishonesty, manhunt, master criminal, undercover ...
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
34%
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:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, undercover, terrorism, woman in danger, on the run, save the day, rivalry, survival, witnessing a crime, race against time, espionage, escapades ...
Similarity:
34%
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:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge plot, state affairs, danger, assassination, terrorism, political conspiracy, political corruption, military, government agency, dishonesty, race against time, political intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, cuba, washington d.c., middle east
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Spy Duncan Jax thwarts a cabal of neo-nazis
Style:
cult classic, political thriller, perverse, independent film, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
terrorist, spy, ninja, baboon, covert operation, secret agent, good versus evil, heroes, disorder, danger, undercover, chases and races ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
33%
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488
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hijacking, chases and races, confined, save the day, danger, race against time, heroes, law enforcement, die hard, terrorist plot, terrorist group ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
33%
23K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Ty Moncrief (Busey) specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Pete ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, serious, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parachuting, terrorism, skydiving, terrorist, chase, parachute, heroes, danger, hijacking, race against time, airplane hijack, aviation ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., miami, florida
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Kick-box champion David Sloan arrives in Rio de Janeiro for an exhibition fight. He and mentor Xian take pity on Brazilian rascal Marcos Coasta, an urchin who offers guide services but routinely steals from tourists for himself and his older sister ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, intense, brutal ...
Plot:
martial arts, kickboxer, tough heroes, fight, heroes, gory, danger, kidnapping, shooting, tough guy, one against many, mixed martial arts ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, terrorism, heroes, battles, soldier, secret agent, hostage, heroic mission, military life, frame up, rescue, daring rescue ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: West Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A CIA agent is sent to get Professor Braun before the KGB can seize him as the Prof's knowledge, together with a recently stolen diamond, could be used to make a laser cannon.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, feel good, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, secret agent, government, one man army, scientist, kgb, good versus evil, espionage, undercover, heroic mission, terrorism, daring rescue ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
south africa, russia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, tough heroes, one man army, danger, state affairs, daring rescue, save the day, law enforcement, chases and races, conspiracy, undercover agent ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
romania, europe, new york, washington d.c.
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.
Style:
independent film, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kickboxer, female assassin, female warrior, terrorism, terrorist, spy, female fighter, cia, woman fights a man, female agent, chase, one woman army ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
32%
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