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Instinct to Kill (2001)
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs task force. Only one man proves able to fight back in his league: former cop J.T. Dillon, who was already training Tess in self-defense and becomes her lover. Becket decides to find hiding place by kidnapping Diffs wife, and thus enforce a final show-down.
Style:
rough, serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, martial arts, psychopath, abusive husband, police investigation, murder, master criminal, vengeance, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, infidelity, dishonesty, prison fight, woman in danger, love, prison escape, kung fu, violence, female nudity, kidnapping, sex scene, blonde, hospital, domestic violence ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and independent film films with plots about rivalry, deadly, martial arts, fistfight, gunfight, murder and danger mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Instinct to Kill: Bloodmatch (1991), Sacrifice (2000), No Tomorrow (1999), Hangman (2001), Cold Steel (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, kickboxing, woman fights a man, fight, intergender wrestling, female fighter, sex scene, fistfight, kung fu, martial artist, kickboxer, revenge ...
Time:
90s
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888
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A convicted bank robber breaks free as he is being transported to prison after learning that his daughter has been killed by a serial killer. Determined to find her killer, he joins with a female cop who is working the case. He quickly discovers ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, manhunt, female killer, murder of a policewoman, female serial killer, murder, mind game, master criminal, investigation, danger, law enforcement, gory ...
Time:
90s
Place:
savannah georgia, alabama
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100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When the world's most notorious criminal allies himself with a senior employee of a major shipping corporation, a lethal deal is struck to secure a multi-million dollar arms transaction. As word of the sinister deal spreads through the ...
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serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
rivalry, gangster, hip hop, injustice, martial arts, criminal heroes, urban ghetto life, law enforcement, arms deal, arms dealer, hip hop culture, african american ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
887
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Death by noose. A nasty way to die if you're not dropped from a length, but instead just had the support kicked from beneath you. A series of murders like this is taking place, linked to a net-based game of 'Hangman', the words of ...
Style:
psychological, rough, suspenseful, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, psychopath, dangerous attraction, police investigation, mind game, mysterious character, danger, false accusation, frame up, murder, woman on top ...
Time:
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and ...
Style:
fast, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, dojo, martial artist, home invasion, die hard, gangster, hostage, master warrior, heroes, heroic mission, danger, forgery ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ex cop, murder, psychopath, investigation, femme fatale, rivalry, police detective, police, revenge, police officer, serial killer, xmas ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who threaten the economies of many African states.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
secret agent, murder, one man army, hotshot hero, daring rescue, heroic mission, undercover, government agency, dishonesty, danger, political conspiracy, assassination attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
100%
508
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, danger, woman in danger, violence, male female relationship, police detective, murder, seduction, revenge, drifter, homeless, psychotic ...
Time:
90s
Place:
venice beach california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, secret identity, tough heroes, confined, danger, special agent, professional killer, murder, tough guy, hitman, female nudity, chinese mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, vancouver, british columbia, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
399
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A feared Chinese Tong soldier goes undercover in America as an Asian Internet bride.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, exciting, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, martial arts, working undercover, ghost, computers and web, disability, hitman, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, police investigation, law enforcement, danger ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When his wife and son are brutally murdered by a fugitive drug lord that he helped put behind bars, former Special Ops agent Derek Leigh vows to avenge their deaths. After mastering lethal fighting skills at the hands of a martial arts instructor, ...
Style:
independent film, fast, serious, suspenseful, gay cinema
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
superhero, martial arts, murder, manhunt, revenge, vigilante, special agent, escapades, vengeance, fugitives, master criminal, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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, mobster ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A military career man, distraught over the murder of his daughter and the subsequent release of her killer who is protected by 'diplomatic immunity,' resigns from the service to pursue the psychopath. No one will help him - and no one can ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female nudity, cia, rape, dominatrix, underwater, murder, rivalry, psychopath, jungle, law enforcement, heroes, vengeance ...
Time:
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Place:
paraguay, latin america
Similarity:
100%
763
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stalking, wilderness, outdoor sex, infidelity, martial arts, undercover, espionage, government agency, danger, rivalry, fighting crime, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, suspense, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Netherlands, Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
futuristic, cyber, tech noir, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
reluctant partners, apocalypse, cyberpunk, woman fights a man, murder of a nude woman, capoeira, dystopian future, gangster, murder, betrayal, gang, prostitute ...
Time:
90s, future, near future
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, detective, f word
Plot:
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Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Movie Info When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female killer, female assassin, terrorist, terrorism, spy, cia, martial arts, woman fights a man, kickboxer, woman with a gun, psychopath, working undercover ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, undercover, heroes, espionage, one man army, save the day, tough heroes, secret agent, terrorism, race against time, danger, master criminal ...
Place:
europe, romania, bucharest
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
100%
297
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, his soul enters into the body of a young officer to seek revenge for his murder. However, when the spirit takes over, the officer is unaware of what is going on and most think he is in need of a ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
spirit, police station, murder, revenge, betrayal, corrupt cop, death, police officer killed, ghost, police, possession, policewoman ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A hit man's boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hitman, professional killer, desire, passionate kiss, attraction, killer, assassin, shakespeare, danger, criminal, drug dealing, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate assassin, implanting gun parts in her body that she must later assemble and use to kill her target before she bleeds to death.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
woman with a gun, female assassin, sex club, murder of a nude woman, revenge, nude fight, master criminal, vengeance, violence spree, good versus evil, danger, rivalry ...
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Similarity:
100%
826
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A woman's son is snatched and she must follow his kidnappers’ instructions to get him back. But when she’s framed for murder by a government department, she must take them on at their own game to ensure her son's survival.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, kidnapping, woman in danger, murder, on the run, disorder, mistaken identity, danger, secret agent, righting the wronged, good versus evil, law enforcement ...
Place:
montana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, mafia, martial arts, organized crime, tough heroes, samurai sword, murder, showdown, crime family, japanese mafia, undercover agent, heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, serial killer, murder, one woman army, woman with a gun, police detective, police investigation, master warrior, tough heroes, law enforcement, master criminal, rivalry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, spiritual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, vengeance, law enforcement, martial arts, assassination, fbi, gangster, tough heroes, undercover, master criminal, danger, race against time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, thailand, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
797
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Luke Kovak is part of a covert group within the CIA that works on illegal black ops involving blackmail and assassinations. When his boss orders the murder of one of the team, Luke realizes how expendable they all are and gets out (taking proof of ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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