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Narrow Margin (1990)
12K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles District Attorney (Gene Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States from Canada to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hit men sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to find the killers are on board with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, visually stunning, suspense, tension, exciting, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, hitman, mafia, witness protection, testimony, police investigation, chase, gangster, organized crime, danger, district attorney, train travel, uncover truth, legal, manhunt, assassination attempt, on the run, race against time, dishonesty, railway, law enforcement, law, courtroom, crime boss, murder witness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, canada, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about rivalry, murder, chases and races, law enforcement, deadly, chase and violence mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Narrow Margin: Quick (1993), Catchfire (1990), Mean Guns (1997), The Piano Player (2002), F/X (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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100%
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Story:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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100%
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
Style:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Hired assassin John Lee is asked by Chinatown crime boss Terence Wei to murder the young son of policeman Stan Zedkov. Lee has the boy in his sights, but his conscience gets the better of him, and he spares the child's life. Afraid that Wei ...
Style:
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Plot:
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124K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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100%
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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100%
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