Movies like Model by Day

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Model by Day (1994)
 4.6
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Model by Day (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lady X is a woman who works during the day as a model but turns into a fighter for justice at night with the help of her karate master Chang.
Style: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: superhero, martial arts, fashion, model, mafia, masked vigilante, heroes, vigilantism, vengeance, rivalry, society, fighting crime, superhuman powers, chaos and mayhem, kung fu, karate, russian mafia, kickboxing, female protagonist, crime fighter, imaginary, deadly, pantyhose, costume, female stockinged legs ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and rough films with plots about rivalry, martial arts, deadly, heroes, law enforcement, vengeance and gangsters mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Model by Day: Full Contact (1993), Brotherhood of Death (1976), Sword of Honor (1996), The Tracker (2001), Rage and Honor (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Full Contact (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Luke Powers travels to L.A. to find that his brother has been murdered in a back alley martial arts tournament. Luke enters the tournament circuit to try to flush out his brother's killer. With the help of a trainer and former fighter, Lucke ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female fight, heist, bar fight, ambition, vigilantism, vengeance, rivalry, gambling, stripper, street fight, fight, nunchaku ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Brotherhood of Death (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of Black soldiers are home from the war and head to a small Southern town. The town is dominated by a group of Klansmen who keep the Black majority from voting or being treated like human beings. However, these newcomers convince the local ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, revenge, ku klux klan, vigilantism, racial issues, racism, vietnam veteran, injustice, vengeance, rebellion, rivalry ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.9
 165
Sword of Honor (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Officer Johnny Lee sets out to avenge his partner's mysterious death. With the help of his partner's sister and an ancient sword, Lee becomes a one man deadly strike force. Stars Steven Vincent Leigh, Sophia Crawford.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police detective, heroes, undercover, vengeance, fighting crime, law enforcement, rivalry, heist, murder, art, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.7
 286
The Tracker (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Spears, a private detective working in L.A. receives word from an old friend that the friend's sister (and Spears' ex-girlfriend), Kim, has been kidnapped by a criminal gang. At first, Spears doesn't want to get involved, especially ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, russian mafia, kung fu, gunfight, fistfight, gangsters, law enforcement, gang, criminal's revenge, rivalry, undercover, private detective ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 5.0
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Rage and Honor (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, female fighter, good versus evil, female fight, woman with a gun, suspense, righting the wronged, gangsters, witnessing a crime, rivalry, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Redemption: Kickboxer 5 (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kickboxing champion Matt Reeves witnesses the murder of his friend Johnny. While investigating the crime, he learns that a Mr. Negaal in South Africa has founded a new kickboxing association and does not leave international champions much of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, showdown, fight, vigilantism, terrorist, vigilante, murder, tough heroes, redemption, contests and competitions, heroes, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.5
 668
High Voltage (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, criminal heroes, disorder, gangsters, law enforcement, good versus evil, crime gone awry, rivalry, bank, murder, money laundering, mexican standoff ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.4
 316
A Time to Die (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who framed her for drug possession and during her investigation, finds that not everything, or everyone, is what they appear to be.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: frame up, police corruption, murder, custody, photographer, woman with a gun, parole, protagonist as suspect, heroes, on the run, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 5.3
 621
Zero Tolerance (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: suspense, vigilantism, murder, drug abuse, hostage, graphic violence, gangsters, track down, heroes, law enforcement, fighting crime, confined ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Rage and Honor II (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Kris and Preston team up once again to take on powerful gangster Buntao. But Buntao has problems of his own, dealing with Dazo, another gangster who is on a steady rise to power...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, female martial artist, female fighter, suspense, woman with a gun, female fight, heroic bloodshed, fistfight, fight, heroes, kickboxer, graphic violence ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.3
 235
New York Cop (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Allegedly based on a true story, this film follows the life of Toshi, a Japanese man living in America and working with the New York City police. After being recommended for undercover work, Toshi decides to go after a gang lead by Hawk. Hawk and ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: woman with a gun, police detective, friends, fighting crime, partners, gangsters, vengeance, betrayal, undercover, gang, rivalry, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive. Remake of The Boxer From Shantung.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, gang, rivalry, fight, suspense, society, master warrior, heroes, graphic violence, hopes, kurd ...
Time: 20th century
Place: shanghai, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Streets of Rage (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Melody Sails is an investigative reporter on Hollywood's juvenile delenquincy, and runs across Lunar, the crimelord. With the help of a 12-year old street-kid, she will get to him, but will she down him in the climactic fight to the death, or ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot: martial arts, female martial artist, female fight, monster, women, femme fatale, prostitution, swat team, law enforcement, prostitute, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 24K
The Punisher (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. Only his ex-partner believes Castle ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, stylized, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: superhero, mafia, vigilante, crime fighter, vigilantism, vengeance, gangsters, torture, one man army, revenge, organized crime, murder ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Mask of the Ninja (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo's wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, rivalry, police investigation, undercover, curses spells and rituals, gangsters, law enforcement, ghost, murder, ninja, tough heroes ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, robbery, hitman, vigilante, nude, vigilantism, heroes, gangsters, graphic violence, sexual content, tough heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Challenge of the Masters (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Wong family kung fu school gets smacked around by a rival school. Wong Fei-hong gets fed up with the abuse and goes to learn from his fathers master. After one of the rival schools members kills some of the towns people Wong Fei-hong becomes ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, graphic violence, battles, righting the wronged, injustice, tough heroes, one man army, vigilantism, contests and competitions ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.4
 2K
Witchblade (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: NYPD Detective Sara Pezzini's main goal in life was to bring down Tommy Gallo, the hitman who killed her father, her best friend, and eventually her partner. While chasing down one of Gallo's thugs, she acquires the Witchblade, an ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, anime ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, destiny, fighting crime, self discovery, rivalry, police detective, hopes, vengeance, law enforcement, heroes, female protagonist, chosen one ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Bodyguard (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, yakuza, medieval, abduction, showdown, gunfight, karate, gangsters, heroes, one man army, graphic violence, vigilantism ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, usa, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
American Yakuza (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitaire, he is hired to operate forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia leaded by Dino Campanela and ...
Style: exciting, cynical, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangsters, organized crime, mafia, yakuza, martial arts, undercover agent, heroes, murder, showdown, hitman, tough heroes, police corruption ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Donato and Daughter (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, the two find themselves forced to deal with a number of painful secrets from their past.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, family life, parents and children, estrangement, fighting crime, partners, law enforcement, amateur detective, who done it, nypd, transvestite ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Sukeban Deka The Movie (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named ...
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, superhero, exploitation, female fight, gang, soldier, high school, rivalry, battles, secret agents, siblings relations, working undercover ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Shootfighter II (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroes, female fight, working undercover, contests and competitions, law enforcement, ambition, rivalry, master warrior, vengeance, graphic violence, tattoo ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Fists of Righteous Harmony (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of centuries-old crime fighters known as the FISTS become modern day motorcycle riding superheroes by using spectecular ninja techniques to battle the forces of evil. The Dark Monk (their arch nemesis) has resurfaced from the criminal ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, undercover, manhunt, heroic mission, fighting crime, gang, superhero, master criminal, one man army, vigilantism, uninhibited rivalry, master warrior ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Disco Godfather (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A retired cop becomes a DJ/celebrity at the Blueberry Hill disco-- he's the "Disco Godfather!" All is well until his nephew flips out on a strange new drug that's sweeping the streets, called "angel dust," or PCP. Disco ...
Style: campy, surreal, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disco, blaxploitation, martial arts, drugs, exploitation, gangsters, nightclub, cult, drug abuse, black cop, vice squad, intoxication ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.8
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Bloodmoon (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ken O'Hara (Gary Daniels) is a "Mindhunter" - a serial killer specialist enlisted to find the mass murderer (Darren Shahlavi) intent on killing the strongest fighters in New York City. Trying to catch this cunning and clever killer is ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, serial killer, fight, terrorism, motorcycle, murder investigation, hacker, performer's life, strong violent content, law enforcement, police investigation, partners ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.8
 2K
The Loner (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.
Style: rough, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, loss of partner, fighting crime, police detective, law enforcement, police chase, revenge, police officer, boy, graphic violence, godparent, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.4
 325
Detour (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir
Plot: on the run, warehouse, mob boss, law enforcement, rivalry, vengeance, gang, dishonesty, criminal heroes, going straight, gangsters, crime gone awry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
 812
Blue Tiger (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gena is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, whilst shopping with him for a halloween mask, her son is accidently shot through the chest by a Japanese Gunman, trying to kill an opposing gang of bus operators. Gena notices that ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, mafia, revenge, death of son, gangsters, strong female presence, hitman, criminal heroes, on the run, vigilantism, track down ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Last Riders (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, gang, dishonesty, rivalry, vengeance, gangsters, law enforcement, death of family, revenge, police, deadly
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%