Movies like Man on Fire
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Man on Fire (2004)
305K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Mexico
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Style:
tense, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tragic ending, suspense, emotional, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, lone hero, vengeance, daring rescue, friendship, mercenary, vigilantism, cia, diary, danger, warrior, vigilante, justice, bodyguard, revenge, murder, redemption, torture, child in peril, violence, death, suicide attempt, deception, blackmail, reporter ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
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Most similar movies to Man on Fire
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about betrayal, murder, storytelling, revenge, crimes, dialogue and mentor mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Man on Fire: The Equalizer (2014), John Wick (2014), The Man from Nowhere (2010), Safe (2012), Taken (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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297K
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, exciting, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, lone hero, fighting crime, vigilantism, lone wolves, vigilante, heroes, gunfight, corruption, tough heroes, righting the wronged, organized crime ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, moscow russia, russia
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100%
422K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Style:
serious, stylized, exciting, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, one man army, vengeance, dark hero, criminal's revenge, gangsters, vigilante, russian mafia, righteous rage, violence spree, crimes, widower ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
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67%
Genre: Action, 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, emotional, brutal, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, martial arts, kidnapping, gang, lone hero, drug lord, missing child, daring rescue, fist fighting, master warrior, crimes, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
korea, asia, south korea, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
95K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lone hero, organized crime, chase, mafia, protector, gunfight, on the run, kidnapping, fist fighting, gangsters, car chase, chases and races ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
535K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, entertaining, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, one man army, vigilantism, chase, dark hero, rescue, young woman, danger, daring rescue, human trafficking, abduction, car chase ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, paris france, arc de triomphe paris
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, brutal, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, revenge, vigilante, violence, chase, murder, police investigation, vengeance, gory, deadly, fighting the system, crimes ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new york, vietnam, asia, usa, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
serious, exciting, psychological, tense, rough ...
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, fighting the system, murder, crime, master criminal, prison, justice, mind game, death, torture, danger ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
330K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
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:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense, surprise ending ...
Plot:
tough girl, murder, death of wife, death of daughter, tunnel, night vision, moral dilemma, fbi, cia, mercenary, crime, drug smuggling ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
mexico, usa, texas, phoenix arizona, tucson arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs ...
Style:
psychological, rough, suspense, brutal, disturbing ...
Plot:
terrorism, violence, investigation, fbi, moral dilemma, nuclear threat, race against time, torture, right and wrong, manipulation, counter terrorism, nuclear bomb ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
102K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a ...
Style:
tense, serious, twists and turns, harsh, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, violence, dirty cop, police investigation, tough law enforcer, right and wrong, doubts and hesitations, undercover cop, corruption, police, murder, twists & turns ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Leon: The Professional
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 ...
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, crimes, tough law enforcer, cocaine, vigilantism, organized crime, fighting crime, danger, tough heroes, crime, revenge, tragic hero ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa, california, los angeles, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane ...
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, murder, violence, homecoming, vietnam veteran, deadly, buddies, rivalry, crime, human nature, death wish ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, texas, mexico, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
353K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
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:
tense, realistic, serious, atmospheric, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lone hero, police corruption, rookie, police brutality, african american, mentor, one day, drug dealing, bad cop, corruption, gunfight, frame up ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Christopher Walken shines in this cult-favorite dark comedy as Charlie, a former mobster who is abducted by five privileged young men (Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) desperate to raise a $2 million ransom ...
Style:
dark humor, suspenseful, tense, twists and turns, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, ransom, betrayal, neo noir, mansion, rain, alcoholic, poker game, pistol, hospital, hostage, crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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:
suspenseful, tense, rough, twists and turns, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hijacking, hostage, train, race against time, ransom, mind game, master criminal, crimes, save the day, crime, danger, financial driven terrorism ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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No Country for Old Men similar movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, serious, twists and turns ...
Plot:
assassination, kidnapping, race against time, politics, accountant, train station, terrorism, murder, one day, assassination plot, psychological torture, mysterious man ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
58K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, rough, brutal ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, vigilantism, crimes, haunted by the past, deadly, vigilante, violence, death, disorder, violence spree, life turned upside down ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
virginia, usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
517K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, police investigation, investigation, disappearance, crime, torture, brutality, revenge, vigilantism, maze, vigilante ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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55K
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:
serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, vengeance, brutality, police investigation, crime scene, gory, crimes, tough law enforcer, danger, deadly, dishonesty, hostage ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico, georgia, usa, atlanta georgia, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, uncover truth, vengeance, investigation, fighting the system, dishonesty, corruption, violence, law enforcement, death of daughter, crimes, danger ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Films like John Wick
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style:
tense, realistic, bleak, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, guilt, police brutality, deception, undercover cop, undercover, betrayal, murder, racial slur, working undercover, violence, corruption ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
93K
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:
rough, serious, suspenseful, twists and turns, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, police investigation, tough heroes, ex convict, policewoman, corruption, crime, law enforcement, prisoner, revenge, hitman, millionaire ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, clever, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, kidnapping, private detective, investigation, crime, mafia, haunted by the past, serial killer, revenge, drug dealer, loner, murder of wife ...
Time:
20th century, 1990s, contemporary, 21st century, 90s ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Movie in collections
376K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, tense, bleak, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
vengeance, sexual abuse, police investigation, child abuse, murder, vigilantism, childhood, tragic event, loss of child, death in the family, grief, loss of daughter ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 20th century, 70s, 1960s
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
103K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, psycho, woman in danger, danger, fear, murder, investigation, lifesaver, cell phone, control room, crimes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, twists and turns, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, criminal's revenge, blackmail, crime lord, crime, gangsters, mysterious woman, enemy, right hand man, mob boss, danger, seduction ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, year 2012
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
loneliness, murder, vigilantism, gang, widower, vengeance, crimes, incompetent police, loss of friend, deadly, violence, brutality ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place:
england, europe, london, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, police corruption, police investigation, murder, moral dilemma, cover up, dishonesty, crime, betrayal, family relations, uncover truth, family values ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
35K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
prison life, prison, vengeance, life is a bitch, rivalry, prison warden, warden, murder, good versus evil, prison escape, revenge, corruption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, stylized ...
Plot:
russian, murder, gangsters, kgb, investigation, organized crime, diary, rape, peril, track down, danger, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, london, europe, st. petersburg russia, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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