Movies like Hired to Kill

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Hired to Kill (1990)
 4.9
 2K
Hired to Kill (1990)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: prison escape, female agent, lesbian subtext, cave, hitman, mercenary, female nudity, model, job, helicopter, rambo, bare breasts, double agent, swimming pool, gay slur, pretending to be gay, woman in a bikini, fake identity, fashion photographer, shootout, bare chested male, gunfight, pantyhose, gay kiss, male male kiss ...
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, suspenseful, serious and surprise ending films with plots about shootout, murder, bare chested male, shot in the head, explosion, shot to death and female nudity mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Hired to Kill: Picasso Trigger (1988), Born Killer (1989), Silk 2 (1989), Anna (2019), Spin2: Revenge (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Picasso Trigger (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Double agent Picasso Trigger is assassinated in Paris by double-crossing bad guy Miguel Ortiz. Then Ortiz begins eliminating agents of The Agency who were involved in his brother's death. The Agency (belatedly) springs into action to stop ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: big breasts, erotica, yacht, spy, woman with a gun, exploitation, blonde, double agent, damage, chick, villain, accident ...
Place: las vegas, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 430
Rage to Kill (1987)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup on this island and may be planning to blow up the school in order to ...
Style: cult classic, independent film
Plot: rebellion, female nudity, bare breasts, coup d'etat, military coup, army, caribbean sea, exploitation, murder of a family, bare chested male, shootout, cold war ...
Place: africa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.9
 133
Born Killer (1989)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two deranged and homicidal escaped convicts terrorize a group of survivalists engaged in a paint-ball war.
Style: splatter, independent film
Plot: psycho killer, fight, sadist, sheriff, vietnam veteran, rape, group, female nudity, exploitation, vengeance, murder, bare chested male ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.4
 240
Silk 2 (1989)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
Style: independent film
Plot: pretty girl, exploitation, woman with a gun, shootout, police, police officer, gunned down, female nudity, female protagonist, female police officer, police protagonist, terrorist group ...
Place: hawaii, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 6.6
 93K
Anna (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Style: suspense, action thriller, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: spy, female assassin, female protagonist, female spy, one woman army, female agent, cia agent, murder, double agent, assassin, model, russian spy ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 80s, year 1985 ...
Place: paris france, moscow russia, russia, milan italy, bahamas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Spin2: Revenge (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An AWOL marine in possession of secret government information, is a wanted man, pursued by Russian special ops, the LAPD, and a dangerous assassin.
Style: action adventure
Plot: held captive, fleeing, double agent, police officer, torture, swat team, politics, espionage, special ops, lapd, pregnancy, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.5
 124
Fatal Justice (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border, the CIA maintains a force of domestic assassins. So secret is their work that their retirement program is a bullet in the head. Up-and-coming hitwoman, Diana, gets the order to dispatch Mars, a legendary ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, spy, woman with a gun, assassin, cia, female assassin, soldier, special agent, parents and children, state affairs, undercover, aging ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.0
 6K
Kill Chain (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and ...
Style: exciting, brutal, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vengeance, hitman, hotel, murderer, twists and turns, brutality, friendship, organized crime, police corruption, corpse, cruelty, gangster ...
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 205K
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, harsh ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: spy, cold war, assassin, female killer, lgbt, female assassin, woman fights a man, female warrior, lesbian, rogue agent, female agent, female spy ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 1989, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: berlin germany, east berlin, germany, eastern europe, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.9
 388
The Revenger (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an accomplice and thrown into prison for five years. Upon his release, he finds Fisher has kidnapped his ...
Style: independent film
Plot: sexploitation, shootout, bare chested male, chase, jazz, bare breasts, rape, fire, kidnapping, vietnam veteran, female nudity, prison ...
Time: 90s
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.6
 163
Dead End City (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The government's new urban renewal policy results in street gangs fighting for control of the inner cities. While most of the residents flee, one factory owner determines to fight the gangs for his property.
Style: hood, independent film, surprise ending
Plot: gang, gangster, ghetto, street gang, vigilante, death, woman killed, prostitute, rape, sadistic psychopath, psychopath, motorcycle gang ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.5
 105
The Runner (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of journalists used to covering international war zones travel to a remote island on a no holds barred survival training course which swiftly gets out of hand under the tuition of two unhinged ex-military types. Running in the background, we ...
Style: independent film
Plot: post apocalypse, violence, island, helicopter, cave, killing, shootout, group, gun, bullet, explosion, gunshot
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.0
 3K
Skyscraper (1996)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.
Style: suspense, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: big breasts, terrorism, woman with a gun, female fighter, sex, women, female fight, die hard, skyscraper, hostage, child, tough girl ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, political thriller, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: mountain climbing, hitman, climbing, mountain, assassination, revenge, murder, mountaineering, catastrophe, secret agent, espionage, cold war ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: alps, switzerland, europe, arizona, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.7
 49
Checkmate (1973)
Genre: Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Federation's Boss must call their best agent out of a bedroom romp with a gentleman because the USA, Russia, Britain and France, are under the menace of an atomic weapon carried by their very own super secret joint satellite.
Style: independent film
Plot: chess, james bond spoof, female fight, striptease, erotica, exploitation, female nudity, agent, seduction, female protagonist, murder, top secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.1
 668
Death Machines (1976)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.
Style: cult classic
Plot: zombie, martial arts, assassin, hitman, invasion, violence, police detective, fistfight, crime boss, police station, villainess, massacre ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.4
 1K
Guns (1990)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A South American gunrunner uses an island in Hawaii as his base of operations. A squad of beautiful government agents is sent to put him out of business.
Style: cult classic, independent film
Plot: spy, erotica, hitman, woman with a gun, katana, voyeur, female singer, gunrunner, female impersonator, helicopter, lust, voyeurism ...
Place: las vegas, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 256K
Escape Plan (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, clever, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: prison, prison escape, survival, escape, prisoner, revenge, escape plan, lone hero, outsmarting, planning, ship, convict ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: morocco, usa, colorado, florida, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.0
 390
Hangfire (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, tension ...
Plot: vietnam veteran, prison break, hostage situation, hostage, heroes, danger, kidnapping, small town, evacuation, escape, profanity, state trooper ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.5
 537
Midnight Heat (1996)
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital, he has flashbacks which do not fit with his current life. After a strange telephone call and a murder attempt on his wife, ...
Style: independent film, exciting, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: bank, banker, amnesia, shootout, dishonesty, rivalry, vengeance, heist, murder, helicopter, prison escape, sex scene ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.0
 9K
The Virtuoso (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A lonesome stranger with nerves of steel must track down and kill a rogue hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt. But the only information he's been given is a time and location where to find his quarry. No name. No description. Nothing.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: hitman, mysterious character, hunt down, murder, murder mystery, criminal, mission, secret identity, murderer, life risking, killer, lonely ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.8
 260K
Extraction (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord…
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, action thriller, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: manly, chick flick
Plot: mercenary, rescue mission, one against many, kidnapping, one man army, ex special forces, machismo, tough guy, death threat, swat team, jungle, child ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: india, bangladesh, australia, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 38K
The Protege (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, perverse, cult classic ...
Plot: female assassin, female killer, revenge, assassin, murder, vengeance, hitman, female warrior, drone, seduction, female protagonist, chase ...
Time: future, year 1991, 90s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: bucharest, vietnam, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 6K
Most Wanted (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col Grant Casey. Their mission is to neutralize criminals who had ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political conspiracy, frame up, manhunt, investigation, on the run, assassination, death row, conspiracy, sniper, false accusation, bomb, parachuting ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.3
 1K
The Hit List (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A hit man's boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: killer, assassin, shakespeare, criminal, danger, drug dealing, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, assassination, widow, bare chested male ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Command Performance (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, confined, danger, tough heroes, government agent, american abroad, die hard, heroes, violent content, delivery, rock ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 3.7
 5K
Submerged (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into ...
Style: stylized, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, martial arts, espionage, rescue, undercover, soldier, heroes, daring rescue, good versus evil, working undercover, government agency, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Maximum Conviction (2012)
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, chase, rescue, confined, partner, tough heroes, on the run, master warrior, danger, jail, wrestler ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.0
 3K
Deadly Prey (1987)
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: action adventure, psychotronic, retro, perverse, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, kidnapping, swamp, exploitation, buddies, serial killer, sex crime, badass, gunfight, fistfight, rapist, psychopath ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Hard Target 2 (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Style: suspense, disturbing, brutal, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxer, jungle warfare, female warrior, jungle, muscleman, hunting, hunter, rescue, fight, one man army, courage ...
Time: 2010s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, burma, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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