Movies like Kill Switch
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Kill Switch (2008)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast, suspense, neo noir, detective
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, psychopath, murder, mind game, rivalry, law enforcement, race against time, martial arts, serial killer, vigilante, chases and races, who done it, police investigation, tough law enforcer, revenge, lawyer, fight, con artists, police officer, police, violence, female nudity, fbi, death, torture ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
memphis, usa
Keyword:
fighting movie
Most similar movies to Kill Switch
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, rough and realistic films with plots about fistfight, brawl, pistol, shootout, gunfight, hand to hand combat and fight mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Kill Switch: Above the Law (1988), Urban Justice (2007), Born to Raise Hell (2010), The Glimmer Man (1996), Driven to Kill (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Style:
suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, conspiracy, aikido, corruption, brutality, vengeance, drug dealing, cia, police, kung fu, police officer, vietnam war ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, vietnam, usa, las vegas, illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, gang, investigation, chase, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspense, tense, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, gangster, loss of partner, law enforcement, chases and races, danger, revenge, brutality, martial arts, violence, murder, ghetto ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, bucharest, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell. ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, reluctant partners, police investigation, aikido, murder, buddy cop, buddy, justice, conspiracy, hitman, violence, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A former Russian mobster named Ruslan, who is now a crime novelist, returns home and discovers his daughter is marrying his arch nemesis. His past also comes back to haunt him when his family is threatened. Hungry for justice, Ruslan returns to the ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, family relations, revenge, save the day, getting home, going straight, erotica ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marshall Lawson is the commander of an elite military unit. Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack, and he takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia and his ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, law enforcement, serial killer, heroes, uncover truth, police investigation, undercover, investigation, frame up, secret agent, life is a bitch, danger ...
Place:
paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Vietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing, a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, friendship, danger, human trafficking, secret code, orphan, martial arts, obsessive quest, righting the wronged, special agent, secret agent, good versus evil ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland, montreal, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his Partner was someone's mistake, because he's now Out For Justice.
Style:
detective, suspense, neo noir, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, martial arts, gangster, psychopath, organized crime, aikido, revenge, car chase, shootout, violence, hitman, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son ...
Style:
suspense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hospital, martial arts, revenge, vigilante, one man army, coma, murder, violence, hitman, conspiracy, mixed martial arts, police corruption ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 1990, 90s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, gambling, spy, aikido, downfall, danger, introspection, life is a bitch, dishonesty, redemption, father daughter relationship, crime boss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Roland Sallinger is an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas, after being asked to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, gangster, daring rescue, ex-cop, law enforcement, vengeance, race against time, rivalry, ransom, gunfight, nightclub, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new mexico, san antonio texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style:
stylized, suspense, black comedy, detective, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, chase, police, aikido, martial arts, kidnapping, police investigation, corrupt cop, conspiracy, secret service, justice, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, law enforcement, martial arts, assassination, fbi, gangster, master criminal, undercover, race against time, danger, katana, martial artist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, thailand, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has ...
Style:
suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, martial arts, cannon, police investigation, brutality, violence, chase, death, hospital, investigation, psychopath ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After serving 6 years for a crime he didn't commit, Shane Daniels is released from jail with an apology from the State of Arizona. Within hours of his freedom, he unluckily bears witness to a cop killing by Chinese mafia who have a kidnapped ...
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
profanity, danger, wrongful conviction, rivalry, confined, police officer killed, save the day, false accusation, assassination attempt, chase, investigation, conspiracy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style:
exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, police officer, one man army, revenge, explosions, police, mafia, gangster, chase, hitman, police investigation, police corruption ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, vigilante, good versus evil, organized crime, gangster, prison, murder, chinese mafia, revenge, prisoner, violence, law enforcement ...
Place:
china, paris france, hong kong, asia, new haven connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Colonel Robert Sikes is on a mission to rid his city of crime. As a stealthy, one-man assault team, he will take on street gangs, mobsters, and politicians with extreme prejudice until his mission is complete. His former protégé, William Porter, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
bare breasts, stripper, vigilante, danger, murder, brutality, anti hero, sociopath, gangster, fbi agent, chase, killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Frank Gannon, a veteran cop, is being hunted by his fellow police officers after they learned he has betrayed the brotherhood and exposed to the feds wide scale corruption of the LAPD. He has one day left to prove his case and survive.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police detective, partner, rivalry, fighting the system, workplace, dishonesty, law enforcement, uncover truth, workplace situations, one man army, hitman ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A former cop turned Los Angeles P.I. takes on a case of a missing diamond cutter that leads him on an adventure of love and villainy spanning of mob to the present day Jewelry District.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
private detective, rescue, chase, missing person, martial arts, police investigation, daring rescue, rivalry, danger, escapades, master criminal, law enforcement ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, europe, germany, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
Style:
exciting, intense, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, gangster, police investigation, police corruption, justice, gunfight, danger, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, fight scenes, violent, murder ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa, bangkok thailand, beijing china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, detective ...
Plot:
martial arts, rescue, brutality, betrayal, chase, violence, murder, aikido, police detective, death, security guard, henchman ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
Style:
suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, renegade, gangster, police detective, prostitute, chase, undercover, computer cracker, cop, partner, against the odds, working undercover ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
martial arts, kidnapping, gangster, save the day, danger, gang, rivalry, gory, crime boss, organized crime, murder, hostage ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia, bucharest, romania, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Buster McHenry (Sutherland) is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm (Phillips), an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster ...
Style:
detective, suspense, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, buddy cop, police corruption, car chase, violence, revenge, law enforcement, machismo, partners against crime, reluctant partners, undercover, working undercover ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
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34%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two cops, a rookie and a grizzled vet, pursue an accomplished bank robber.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Joe Huff (Brian Bosworth) is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Joe into an undercover operation that entails infiltrating "The Brotherhood" - a powerful Mississippi biker gang linked ...
Style:
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boys' night, manly
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Time:
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Place:
mississippi, new orleans, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, Taggart is sent in -- posing as ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
kentucky, usa, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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