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Half Past Dead 2 (2007)
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Half Past Dead 2 (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transfered to a tougher prison than the re-opened Alcatraz. He claims it's to be closer to his lady but his real motives are a bit more grandiose. There he crosses paths with Burke (Bill Goldberg) a bulky prisoner who can take care of himself. Twitch, despite being less muscular, is just as mouthy and is pretty much the same. But there is a gang war brewing between the black and hispanic inmates that explodes into a hostile takeover of the prison when the black's gang leader is shot dead and the finger points at Burke. But the sh!t really hits the fan when the real killer and leader of the hispanics, Cortez (Robert Madrid) takes Twitch's girlfriend and Burke's daughter hostage.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, action packed, fast, campy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, strong man, manhunt, master criminal, prison life, criminal heroes, heroes, soldier, misfit, fugitives, chases and races, fighting the system, rivalry, society, law enforcement, confined, criminal's revenge, chaos and mayhem, tough guy, riot, showdown, one man army, wrestler, prison escape, jail ...
Time: contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, law enforcement, heroes, chases and races, confined, deadly and criminal heroes mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Half Past Dead 2: Ring of Death (2008), Jump Out Boys (2008), Firetrap (2001), Con Games (2001), Hard Justice (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Half Past Dead (2002)
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
Plot: prison, gangster, tough heroes, secret agent, vengeance, gang, stolen money, save the day, danger, confined, law enforcement, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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95%
Ring of Death (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: On the inside, there are no rules. See what happens when Prison Officials Profit from Illegal fights.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, frame up, contests and competitions, criminal heroes, police investigation, criminal's revenge, jail, martial arts, fight, competition, undercover, electric torture ...
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94%
 2.5
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Jump Out Boys (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Set in post hurricane New Orleans. A brutal Mexican drug lord (Armando LeDuc) busts out of jail to retrieve the $15 million that his girlfriend is hiding. But detective Raymond (Kris Kristofferson) and McCoy (Sheldon Robbins) will try their best to ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, hitman, chaos, law enforcement, manhunt, danger, vengeance, drug dealing, drug dealer, police shootout, gang violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 5.0
 820
Firetrap (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Master burglar Max Hopper is released early after three years and soon gets an exceptional job: stealing an advanced computer-chip from the IQ Industries headquarters. His first attempt fails; when he enters in cop uniform during an emergency board ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, heist, burned alive, undercover, crime gone awry, cons and scams, frame up, dishonesty, race against time, danger, rivalry, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Con Games (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A decorated Army veteran goes undercover as a prison inmate to investigate the death of a Senator's grandson, who was killed while behind bars. Once under lock and key, he finds himself at the mercy of an all-powerful guard whose deadly ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspense, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, confined, undercover, soldier, investigation, working undercover, fighting the system, rivalry, criminal heroes, state affairs, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: future
Place: usa, california
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79%
 5.5
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Hard Justice (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams (David Bradley) goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike (Charles Napier) and his pet goons are involved in all kinds of corrupt activities; dope dealing and gun ...
Style: bloody, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, martial arts, prison, government agent, corruption, undercover agent, karate, convict, gunfight, fistfight, special agent, partner ...
Time: 90s
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Today You Die (2005)
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: betrayal, prison, frame up, criminal heroes, dishonesty, martial arts, revenge, heroic bloodshed, fistfight, gangster, violence, vigilante ...
Place: las vegas, usa
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Hitman's Run (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: fbi, witness protection, witnessing a crime, danger, criminal heroes, woman in danger, crime boss, husband wife relationship, one man army, buddy, die hard, assassin ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Road of No Return (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, undercover, danger, introspection, race against time, politics, law enforcement, anti hero, heroes, rivalry, orphan, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.3
 662
Zero Tolerance (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told ...
Style: suspense, independent film, fast, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: die hard, vigilantism, murder, drug abuse, violent content, gangster, special agent, hitman, tough heroes, drug dealing, master criminal, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.1
 2K
The Escapist (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, prison, tough heroes, violence spree, heroes, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, gang, revenge, escape, fugitives ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.8
 654
Proximity (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But when a fellow inmate tells him that in the past two years fourteen inmates have died at the prison, ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: prison, false accusation, law enforcement, frame up, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, confined, protagonist as suspect, criminal heroes, anti hero, jail, trial ...
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57%
 3.9
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Tha Eastsidaz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Snap, Crackle, and Pop are top dogs in the Eastsidaz gang in Long Beach. Pop, also known as Killa, is the alpha dog. He has Crackle and Snap set up a big drug deal that's going to put him on easy street. But Crackle and Snap have their own ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, criminal's revenge, gang, vengeance, criminal heroes, partner, frame up, heist, prison, undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.8
 704
Final Approach (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 2000s
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Blast (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Terrorists attempt to disrupt the Atlanta Olympics by kidnapping the U.S. women's swim team. If their demands are not met, the team will be executed. Only janitor Jack Bryant, a former Olympic gymnast champion of Tae Kwon Do felled by injuries ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
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Antikiller (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough ...
Plot: fighting crime, gang, criminal heroes, rivalry, brutality, murder, danger, criminal, criminal gang, law and order, bandit, smuggler ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
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Death Train (2003)
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
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Real Thing (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: heist, gang, new year's eve, dishonesty, partner, best friend, friends, confined, criminal heroes, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Con Express (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A hotheaded Alaskan customs agent (Sean Patrick Flannery) unwillingly teams up with a coldhearted but beautiful Soviet agent (Ursula Karven) to capture a rogue Russian general (Arnold Vosloo), selling a shipment of deadly nerve gas. Tensions and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, suspense, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2002
Place: usa, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Island of Fire (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.
Style: action adventure, cult classic, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s, 90s
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Point Blank (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, rescue, danger, race against time, one man army, brother brother relationship, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, confined, daring rescue, fugitives, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 90s
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47%
The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, border patrol, corrupt cop, police investigation, partners against crime, drug dealing, danger, confined, tough law enforcer, master criminal, police corruption, gunfight ...
Place: new mexico, new orleans, usa, latin america, mexico
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45%
Living & Dying (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, rough
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Ticker (2001)
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, chase, hostage, save the day, master criminal, daring rescue, police investigation, unlikely partners, confined, danger, investigation ...
Place: san francisco, usa
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42%
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Animal 2 (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Now serving a life sentence for murder, James "Animal" Allen returns to fighting for cash in order to help his troubled son on the outside. However, with his newfound fame as a fighter, Animal uncovers a jailhouse conspiracy that threatens ...
Style: serious, realistic, hood, crime drama
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Black Dog (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.
Style: road movie, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: truck, car chase, rescue, chases and races, chase, fugitives, gang, arms dealer, race against time, on the run, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
American Dragons (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Murders in Seoul, Korea and in America pair two cops from each of the countries together to solve the crimes. The investigation leads to a gang war between the Mafia and the Yakuza, but one that may not be of either of their making. A shadowy ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, reluctant partners, buddy cop, killer, die hard, police investigation, cop, gangster, violent content, special agent, partner, profanity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, seoul, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.9
 317K
Con Air (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching ...
Style: exciting, suspense, serious, action packed, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: airplane, prison, hijacking, master criminal, aviation, law enforcement, machismo, convict, colombian drug cartel, fugitives, die hard, confined ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: utah, las vegas, usa, north america, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Riot (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot.
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ira, martial arts, anglo irish relations, die hard, one man army, terrorism, hostage, kidnapping, mansion, secret agent, special agent, gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.2
 854
Open City (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jo Dae-yeong is a police officer investigating a pickpocket ring with ties to the Yakuza. One day he rescues Baek Jang-mi from danger, only to discover that she is the boss of the gang he has been tracking.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, police detective, rescue, femme fatale, police investigation, dishonesty, master criminal, heroes, redemption, law enforcement, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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