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Hostile Force (1997)
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a would-be bank robber's attempt to steal $6 million goes awry, he takes a woman hostage without realizing that she is an ex-cop.
Style:
captivating, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, terrorist, security guard, robbery, armored car robbery, hostage, murder, police, policewoman, chase, strong female lead, female protagonist, woman in danger, armored car, street crime, police officer, female terrorist, police officer killed, attempted rape, wound, police shootout, female police officer, bulletproof vest, desert eagle, uniform ...
Time:
20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, exciting and suspense films with plots about police officer, murder, police, violence, rivalry, police officer killed and gangster mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hostile Force: Fox Hunter (1995), Certain Fury (1985), Killers from Beijing (2000), The Greatest Battle of Wolves (1989), The Underground (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
hong kong
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Time:
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100%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.
Style:
crime drama, serious, rough, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, contemplative, exciting
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
boston
Similarity:
21%
852
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In this "cops and robbers" film, a raid on a jewelry store staged by a band of amateur hold-up artists goes horribly wrong, leading to a shoot-out. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team, headed by Captain Ching King Gen, is poised to go ...
Style:
heroic, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroic bloodshed, organized crime, gunfight, rivalry, crime gone awry, law enforcement, criminal heroes, store, wooing, heist, disorder, mugging ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
21%
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, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
heist, gang, new year's eve, dishonesty, best friend, partner, friends, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, confined, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
21%
33K
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to none. But when ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, robbery, armored car robbery, crime gone awry, brutality, bank robbery, bank robber, lone hero, fbi, gangster, corruption, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, las vegas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When a bomb went off unexpectedly during a police operation to disarm it, bomb disposal officer Poon Shing-Fung got caught in the blast and lost one of his legs. Poon decided to leave the police service. Three years later, the police suspect Poon, ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
police, criminal underworld, mafia, organized crime, murder, police officer killed, torture, police procedural, nordic, gangster, gunfight, crime family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The only son (Tony Leung Ka Fai) in a family of police officers marries Mina, an ambitious `half-breed' colleague (played by Joyce Godenzi), incurring the resentment of his four sisters, all policewomen, especially the eldest, Ling (Carina ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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630
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four friends pay the ultimate price,when they seek revenge against a low-level Gangster.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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792K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking an elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
112
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, hostage, caper, heist, outsmarting, hijacking, terrorist, terrorism, passenger, chase, police investigation, fbi ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
undercover, against the rules, police investigation, working undercover, tough law enforcer, master criminal, gain trust, law enforcement, chase, rivalry, gunfight, triad ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Russian Police Major is enlisted by the LAPD to help solve a series of gruesome murders perpetrated against young women by a sadistic sociopathic killer on the mean streets of Hollywood.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, detective
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, tough cop, partner, danger, violence, fighting crime, murder investigation, tough heroes, tough law enforcer, law enforcement ...
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The theme of the film is ethics. Sammo Hung is a retired cop who trains assassins to do the jobs of cops, whom Sammo sees as unable to do the right things. He sends his four students to assassinate drug dealers. They more than complete the job when ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, intense, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gang, police shootout, police officer, assassin, violence, vigilante, murder, bandit, organized crime, vengeance, fighting crime, avenge ...
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Financial tycoon and former triad member Yu Shun-tin tries to eradicate the drug market while 'Jizo' aims to singlehandedly take over Hong Kong's drug exchange as the number one drug lord. Meanwhile, Lam Ching-fung, a cop from the ...
Style:
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