Movies like Flashpoint 1984
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Flashpoint (1984)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the info they find. Soon the Feds are running all over the place, and it looks like jeep maybe linked to the JFK assassination. But the Feds are trying to cover it up, and eliminate anyone involved with the jeep.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, disturbing, neo noir, surprise ending, slasher, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, police investigation, police detective, political conspiracy, witnessing a crime, partners against crime, kennedy assassination, friendship, politics, political intrigue, assassination, government agency, state affairs, reluctant partners, corrupt cop, border patrol, suspense, killer, gang, bag of money, desert, vietnam veteran, heist, investigation, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 80s, year 1963, 1960s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, san antonio texas, united states of america, united states
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and neo noir films with plots about gunfight, murder, gun, chase, law enforcement, investigation and police mostly in Crime, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Flashpoint: Two-Minute Warning (1976), Code of Silence (1985), Shakedown (1988), Absolute Power (1997), The Negotiator (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT commander Sergeant Button (John Cassavetes), learn of the plot and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, american football, sniper, terrorism, serial killer, catastrophe, usa president, natural disaster, crash, time, killings, psychopath ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style:
exciting, intense, melancholic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, police officer, fight, mafia, police, revenge, gangsters, chase, hitman, police investigation, justice, car chase ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago illinois, texas, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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, fighting the system, legal action, police investigation, bad cop, partners against crime, law enforcement, rivalry, drug dealing, reluctant partners ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder in which the President of The United States is involved occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run yet may hold evidence that could convict the President. A political thriller ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, political, intense, serious ...
Plot:
secret service, political corruption, murder mystery, politics, suspense, political conspiracy, assassination, conspiracy, justice, usa president, witnessing a crime, white house ...
Time:
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Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that ...
Style:
suspenseful, intellectual, serious, intense, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, hostage, suspense, uncover truth, corruption, police corruption, twists and turns, false accusation, conspiracy, frame up, negotiation, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
car chase, murder, police detective, police corruption, fighting crime, uncover truth, law enforcement, rivalry, investigation, suspense, twists and turns, driving ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, seattle, washington state, plymouth
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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.
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exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, conspiracy, aikido, corruption, police officer, suspense, brutality, vengeance, undercover, drug dealing, cia, police ...
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80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago illinois, vietnam, usa, california, japan ...
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93%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, revenge, suspense, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, chase, hitman, gangsters, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political ...
Style:
suspenseful, political, tense, rough, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
conspiracy, politics, investigation, murder, secret service, corruption, white house, suspense, president, state affairs, love affair, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
washington d.c., usa, korea, asia, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness named Gus Mally from Vegas. Mally turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties and incriminating information regarding a ...
Style:
road movie, exciting, entertaining, sexy, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, motorcycle, biker, police corruption, organized crime, bus, motorcycle chase, hitman, police officer, tough cop, corrupt official, on the road ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, san francisco, usa, phoenix arizona, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style:
realistic, enigmatic, tense, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cia, suspense, swat team, drug cartel, revenge, black ops, fbi agent, drug smuggling, organized crime, fbi, crime boss, u.s. mexico border ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa, texas, tucson arizona, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Conner and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Conner has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences ...
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exciting, intense, serious, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, suspense, police, police investigation, surveillance, corruption, murder mystery, partners, playboy, society, buddy cop, lawyer ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, los angeles, usa, tokyo, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the ...
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Audience:
boys' night
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vigilante, swat team, buddy cop, nypd, revenge, gang, vigilantism, undercover, police station, police corruption, murder, police detective ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, military, spy, cold war, suspense, soldier, prisoner, sergeant, airport, politics, state affairs, government agency ...
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Place:
germany, chicago illinois, washington d.c., berlin germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Style:
neo noir, harsh, stylized, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, murder, who done it, suspense, fbi, mistaken identity, undercover, working undercover, hidden identity, money, existentialism, corruption ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, intense, brutal, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, drug cartel, vengeance, crime scene, suspense, revenge, death of friend, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, heist, violent, investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, california, atlanta, georgia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
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neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, serious, political thriller
Plot:
uncover truth, fighting the system, investigation, undercover, politics, race against time, life is a bitch, rebellion, government agency, dishonesty, society, assassination ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two cops, a rookie and a grizzled vet, pursue an accomplished bank robber.
Style:
surprise ending, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, bank robbery, police detective, investigation, police investigation, twists and turns, hostage, police, gangsters, surveillance, heist, vengeance ...
Place:
seattle, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tough police detective escapes from custody handcuffed to a foul-mouthed car thief after being framed for the murder of his ex-wife. He must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Style:
neo noir, tricky, suspenseful, rough, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, chase, vengeance, police investigation, vigilantism, frame up, mafia, false accusation, stalking, femme fatale, revenge, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police officer, hitman, law enforcement, rivalry, dishonesty, tough heroes, chase, police, conspiracy, deception, spy, flashback ...
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Place:
japan, new york, asia, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A cop goes undercover in a South Carolina high school. With the help of a local narcotics officer, he investigates the drug ring responsible for another cop's death.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
high school, police, undercover, vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, partners, law enforcement, partners against crime, police investigation, police detective, working undercover ...
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baltimore, south carolina, southern usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political corruption, murder, investigation, suspense, police, gangsters, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, partners against crime, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, alcoholic, private detective, murder, redemption, downfall, track down, going straight, rehabilitation, police corruption, police officer, warehouse ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, ...
Style:
clever, exciting, suspenseful, sexy, enigmatic ...
Plot:
conspiracy, spy, interpol, murder, investigation, intrigue, assassin, espionage, chase, lawyer, gunfight, revenge ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, middle east, israel, usa, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has ...
Style:
suspenseful, slasher, scary, perverse, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, martial arts, police investigation, brutality, chase, investigation, hospital, suspense, violence, death, catastrophe ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Films like L.A. Confidential
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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, neo noir, exciting, tense, cerebral ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, escape, on the run, betrayal, twists and turns, suspense, framed for murder, fugitives, manhunt, death row, uncover truth, u.s. marshal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: 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:
exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover cop, murder, suspense, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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88%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force ...
Style:
buddy movie, neo noir, tense, exciting, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
conspiracy, investigation, murder, military, father daughter relationship, tough cop, fistfight, murder investigation, factory, tough guy, police chase, funeral ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, new jersey, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
conspiracy, terrorism, twists and turns, suspense, terrorist, murder, professor, paranoia, deception, fbi, uncover truth, mysterious character ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c., virginia, west virginia, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
Style:
disturbing, brutal, stylized, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence, chase, murder, vengeance, gang, gunfight, death, suspense, brutality, revenge, visceral, police investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, vietnam, new jersey, asia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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