Movies like Getting Even 1986

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Getting Even (1986)
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Getting Even (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out about it and sets out to steal it.
Style: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, heroes, hostage, terrorism, chase, disaster, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, danger, confined, race against time, heroic mission, car chase, female agent, extortion, corrupt businessman, babe scientist, crooked businessman, nudity, catastrophe, nude, deadly, nerve gas, woman wearing a gas mask ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films with plots about danger, chases and races, heroes, deadly, rivalry, escapades and terrorism mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Getting Even: Asker (2000), A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013), Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002), Submerged (2000), Countdown (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Asker (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, hostage, save the day, rebelliousness, espionage, heroes, working undercover, secret agent, danger, escapades, leadership ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Plot: viking, monk, medieval, heroic mission, heroes, chase, escapades, danger, monastery, master warrior, sword, nordic ...
Time: middle ages, 8th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, rivalry, terrorism, heroic mission, confined, chases and races, escapades, heroes, danger, hijacking, bomb, boat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Submerged (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, heroic mission, race against time, daring rescue, heroes, rivalry, gang, confined, save the day, escapades, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Countdown (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Terror from within by Yury Felshtinsky and Alexander Litvinenko, representing them as parts of the plan masterminded and sponsored by exiled tycoon Pokrovsky (obvious hint at Boris Berezovsky in real life) and aimed to discredit Russian security ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: terrorism, hostage, undercover, heroic mission, rivalry, danger, murder, conflict, circus, confined, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, heroic mission, rescue, race against time, danger, save the day, politics, secret agent, special agent, government agency, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: romania, europe, bucharest, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Chain of Command (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, save the day, working undercover, secret agent, danger, head of state, state affairs, rivalry, race against time, blackmail, secret service ...
Time: 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Maximum Velocity (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a comet passes the Earth it causes a cataclysmic storm. Only a disbanded government unit with a secret weather-manipulating weapon can try to stop it.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: save the world, heroic mission, escapades, heroes, danger, environmentalism, chaos, forces of nature, chases and races, weatherman, disaster, natural disaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Hijack (1998)
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: train, terrorism, hijacking, chases and races, danger, heroes, confined, law enforcement, race against time, save the day, die hard, terrorist plot ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Hangmen (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. Connelly's men try to kill Greene, but he can escape ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, terrorism, tough heroes, psychopath, working undercover, undercover, rivalry, state affairs, one man army, tough law enforcer, espionage, assassination attempt ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Depth Charge (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jason Gedrick and Eric Roberts lead the cast of this thriller about a submarine captain who attempts to hold Washington, D.C. hostage for a billion dollars, and the heroic doctor who struggles to thwart the plan before the situation escalates.
Style: rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: submarine, confined, hostage, save the world, danger, terrorism, good versus evil, state affairs, save the day, nuclear threat, blackmail, extortion ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Counterstrike (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: daring rescue, terrorism, hostage, rescue, special agent, save the day, confined, escapades, danger, race against time, undercover, rivalry ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Air Marshal (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A commercial jet plane has been hijacked by a group of terrorists who don't realize that a U.S. Air Marshal, Brett Prescott (Dean Cochran), is among the passengers. The fate of dozens of people lies in the hands of Prescott, who must forge a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, airplane, terrorism, danger, heroes, strong violent content, aviation, hijacker, terrorist, muslim, die hard, pilot ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Heaven's Fire (1999)
Genre: Thriller, Action
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Terrorists seize a building with intent to blow it up. However, one of the men trapped in the building is an ex-treasury agent, who just happens to be there with his wife and children in a tour group. Having to fight the terrorists and fires that ...
Style: fast, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, disaster, natural disaster, die hard, fire, tower, secret agent, heist, hijacking, save the day, rivalry, heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
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, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, soldier, military, heroic mission, martial arts, commando mission, danger, heroes, daring rescue, master warrior, betrayal, military base ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Nowhere to Land (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, save the day, special agent, danger, chases and races, law enforcement, heroes, aviation, race against time, disaster, ex husband ex wife relationship, die hard ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s
Place: usa, australia, california, oceania, new south wales ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Pandora Project (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A CIA agent has to stop a former associate who has stolen a weapon which kills people without harming buildings, all before he is to get married in a few days.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, spy, end of the world, special agent, fellow agent, undercover, rivalry, save the day, escapades, chases and races, master villain, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Crash Point Zero (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a plane carrying a legendary and recently found death ray machine from Siberia to Canada is hijacked and crashes in the remote mountains of Alaska, only a fearless government agent (Treat Williams) will risk his life to save the world. A modern ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, tough heroes, save the day, confined, danger, survival, undercover, daring rescue, heroes, race against time, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Air Rage (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, fast ...
Plot: terrorism, airplane, save the day, daring rescue, hostage, rivalry, danger, government agency, air disaster, hijacking, die hard, escape ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Throttle (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Every day, millions of people descend into underground parking garages, get into their cars and drive to the safety of their homes. But tonight, five levels down in a deserted corporate parking structure, financial analyst Tom Weaver won't be ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, psychopath, confined, rivalry, isolation, on the run, frame up, master criminal, stalking, danger, automobile, die hard ...
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Hour of Valor (2000)
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, law enforcement, confined, undercover, race against time, save the day, danger, secret agent ...
Place: washington d.c., france
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64%
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The Zone (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, spy, special agent, secret agent, hostage, conspiracy, law enforcement, good versus evil, rivalry, race against time, chases and races, confined ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Target (2004)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: U.S. Army sniper Charlie Snow finds himself at the other end of the crosshairs when the brother of an Eastern European arms dealer whom he killed decides to take vengeance on Charlie and his family in L.A.
Style: realistic, serious, rough
Plot: terrorism, sniper, rivalry, soldier, danger, state affairs, chases and races, law enforcement, hostage, kidnapping, save the day, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Bare Knuckles (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Plot: blaxploitation, serial killer, car chase, psychopath, bounty hunter, violent content, investigation, danger, chases and races, rivalry, urban, killer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, crime gone awry, survival, on the run, chase, disorder, danger, escapades, chases and races, isolation, drug dealing, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Superfire (2002)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forest fire, disaster, forces of nature, survival, save the day, hidden identity, heroes, disorder, danger, apocalypse, firefighter, natural disaster ...
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Air Collision (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, save the day, survival, danger, aviation, disorder, escapades, confined, disaster, aeroplane, army, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Flight of Black Angel (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A top US Air Force fighter pilot decides that his call sign of Black Angel means that he's a messenger of God. Freely committing murders as he goes, he steals a nuclear weapon and his plane. Taking a family hostage to help him, he works on ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, futuristic, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, hijacking, space, disaster, world war, hostage, radioactivity, fighter pilot, atomic bomb, u.s. air force, chaos, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Marksman (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, black american, military, sniper, soldier, heroes, rescue, frame up, heroic mission, daring rescue, political conspiracy, race against time ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Escape from Alaska (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, environmental, natural disaster, apocalypse, climate, mountain, rescue, danger, fighting the system, chases and races, race against time ...
Time: 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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