Movies like A Man Apart

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A Man Apart (2003)
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A Man Apart (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when all Vetter can focus on is revenge.
Style: suspense, harsh, emotional, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, vigilantism, drug cartel, vigilante, drug, lone hero, justice, gang, violence, brutality, corruption, gangster, tough heroes, gunfight, hitman, police investigation, life philosophy, undercover cop, drug lord, machismo, cocaine, organized crime, tragic hero, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place: mexico, los angeles, usa, california, latin america, colombia, tijuana mexico ...
Keyword: partners, gangsters, american, poster, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to A Man Apart

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about shootout, violence, murder, blood splatter, blood, pistol and shotgun mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like A Man Apart: Running Scared (2006), Training Day (2001), The Man from Nowhere (2010), Payback (1999), Sicario (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Running Scared (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun ...
Style: suspense, brutal, bloody, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: child abuse, gunfight, gangster, police corruption, mafia, undercover agent, mob boss, violent, racism, gory, police investigation, organized crime ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey
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100%
 7.7
 470K
Training Day (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style: neo noir, realistic, tense, harsh, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, gang, corrupt cop, ghetto, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, dirty cop, drug ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Man from Nowhere (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named ...
Style: serious, tense, brutal, exciting, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, one man army, martial arts, kidnapping, lone hero, assassin, master warrior, organized crime, drug lord, fight scenes, gang, fight ...
Time: year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, east asia, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 145K
Payback (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, black comedy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, money, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, anti hero, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, violence ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 470K
Sicario (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cia, hitman, drug cartel, revenge, swat team, fbi, black ops, fbi agent, drug smuggling, crime boss, organized crime, cia agent ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, el paso texas, tucson arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 10K
Waist Deep (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
Style: hood, intense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hip hop, gangster, chase, african american, urban, african american gangster, revenge, car chase, ghetto, black, ex convict ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 58K
Chaos (2005)
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: exciting, surprise ending, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, bank robbery, police detective, investigation, police investigation, hostage, gangster, police, heist, vengeance, conspiracy, brutality ...
Time: year 2005
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 66K
Sabotage (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, ...
Style: exciting, intense, stylized, suspense, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, drug cartel, vengeance, crime scene, revenge, death of friend, revenge killing, tough law enforcer, danger, dishonesty, drug, violent ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: mexico, atlanta georgia, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dead Presidents (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent ...
Style: realistic, suspense, disturbing, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vietnam war, heist, robbery, african american, violence, ghetto, redemption, gangster, caper, blaxploitation, black, brutality ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, vietnam, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bullet to the Head (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Style: exciting, intense, brutal, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, revenge, corruption, assassin, organized crime, tough law enforcer, conspiracy, betrayal, murder, police corruption, brutality, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, future, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
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The Substitute (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She's now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, intense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: high school, teachers and students, teacher, hidden identity, vigilante, bullying, danger, gang, undercover, gangster, substitute teacher, society ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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Death Sentence (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vengeance, murder, violence, vigilante, gangster, vigilantism, revenge, tragic event, violent, character change, blood, loss of son ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
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Contraband (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago – smuggling – to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Style: exciting, realistic, clever, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: smuggling, gunfight, robbery, drug lord, dishonesty, conspiracy, caper, criminal heroes, mafia, danger, organized crime, drug ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 170K
The Punisher (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, vengeance, vigilante, lone hero, vigilantism, violence, superhero, tough guy, one man army, comic hero, mafia, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2003
Place: florida, puerto rico, virginia, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
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Hitman (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic ...
Style: serious, exciting, action packed, stylized, fast paced ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: hitman, killer, sniper, one man army, assassin, danger, assassination, fight scenes, revenge, computer game, conspiracy, cia ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: soviet union, europe, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Out for Justice (1991)
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 ⇓
100%
 6.3
 10K
Rapid Fire (1992)
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 ⇓
100%
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Angel of Death (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In the tradition of Grindhouse, Kill Bill and Sin City, award-winning comic book writer Ed Brubaker (Incognito, The Death of Captain America, Daredevil) teams up with stuntwoman-turned-cult star Zoe Bell (Death Proof, TV's "Lost") to ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: female assassin, assassin, danger, rivalry, heroes, woman in danger, organized crime, female protagonist, fbi agent, husband wife relationship, female fighter, female fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Assassination Games (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: kickboxing, hitman, assassin, vengeance, assassination, chases and races, sniper, gang rape, martial arts, one against many, revenge, tragic hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bucharest, ukraine, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 110K
Walking Tall (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
Style: intense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one against many, vigilante, ex military, small town, home invasion, lone hero, one man army, justice, revenge, organized crime, vigilantism, heroes ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Russian Specialist (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, gangster, danger, gang, death, payback, kidnapping, prostitute, vigilante, soldier, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 14K
Deep Cover (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police investigation, gangster, brutality, drug, murder, drug addiction, undercover, racial slur, undercover cop, black, urban, betrayal ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: los angeles, ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 37K
Raw Deal (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a ...
Style: intense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: fbi, one man army, vigilante, small town, gangster, revenge, mafia, tough heroes, heroes, law enforcement, working undercover, partners against crime ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1985
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Extreme Justice (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, vigilantism, reluctant partners, revenge, gang, buddy cop, nypd, swat team, die hard, revolt, partner, police detective ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 197K
Desperado (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner.
Style: stylized, grindhouse, action packed, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, lone hero, dark hero, hitman, vigilante, one against many, gangster, gory, musician, badass, gunfight, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 107K
Colombiana (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, vengeance, revenge, female killer, vigilante, one against many, assassin, tough girl, haunted by the past, female protagonist, strong female lead ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 1992, 90s, 21st century
Place: colombia, chicago, latin america, south america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 416K
The Equalizer (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ...
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, brutal, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot: vigilante, vigilantism, corruption, hitman, assassin, one man army, gunfight, organized crime, justice, lone hero, brutality, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, moscow russia, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.4
 112K
Faster (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has spent the last 10 years in prison planning revenge for the murder of his brother. Now that Driver is free to carry out his deadly plan only two men stand in his way- Billy Bob Thornton plays a veteran cop and Oliver ...
Style: stylized, brutal, intense, talky, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, girls' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, lone hero, vigilante, corruption, hotshot, justice, ex convict, revenge, vigilantism, brutality, gangster, gratuitous violence ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: iran, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Marked for Death (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, gangster, murder, violence, good versus evil, revenge, voodoo, jamaican, drug lord, car chase, sword fight ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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