Movies like Night of the Running Man
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Night of the Running Man (1995)
2K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, independent film, fast
Plot:
on the run, hitman, taxi driver, gangster, chase, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, tough heroes, pursuit, murder, crime boss, manhunt, gang, professional killer, die hard, nude women, contract killer, chases and races, rivalry, sex, travel, money, train, violence ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, usa, los angeles, salt lake city utah
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Most similar movies to Night of the Running Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, hitman, deadly, chases and races, murder, violence and gun mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Night of the Running Man: Quick (1993), Double Tap (1997), F/X (1986), Narrow Margin (1990), The Hitman (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
504
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
femme fatale, hitman, mafia, bodyguard, betrayal, chase, on the run, female warrior, accountant, corruption, murder, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, beverly hills, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
killer, hired killer, contract killer, assassin, professional killer, professional, mad love, hitman, terrorism, drug abuse, female nudity, outlaw ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
25K
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:
detective, exciting, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disguise, corruption, gangster, manhunt, murder, faked death, car chase, witness protection, on the run, assassin, betrayal, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, geneva switzerland, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, hitman, mafia, witness protection, testimony, police investigation, gangster, chase, organized crime, train travel, danger, district attorney ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, canada, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, mafia, fighting crime, martial arts, assassin, revenge, working undercover, gang, special agent, frame up, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
usa, seattle, vancouver
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
fbi, witness protection, witnessing a crime, danger, criminal heroes, woman in danger, crime boss, husband wife relationship, one man army, buddy, die hard, mobster ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car, chase, revenge, fbi, twists and turns, law enforcement, vengeance, assassin, murder, on the run, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
action thriller, exciting, intense, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, revenge, vengeance, assassin, professional killer, contract killer, corruption, brutality, mercenary, violent, organized crime, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2012, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also quickly finds that they have military leadership among the officers at the Academy.
Style:
exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, undercover, military academy, heroes, secret agent, law enforcement, danger, private detective, dishonesty, investigation, hidden identity, terrorism ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A policeman takes his twin brother's place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, chase, vengeance, gangster, gunfight, heroes, car chase, undercover, hidden identity, switching roles, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, france, paris france, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, one man army, tough heroes, save the day, on the run, hostage, undercover, danger, train, one against many, gunfight, die hard ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, 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, neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
undercover, prison, murder, organized crime, revenge, investigation, redemption, vengeance, tough heroes, one last job, crime boss, ex convict ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a ...
Style:
stylized, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
revenge, hitman, gangster, brutality, murder, videotaped sex, vengeance, lone wolves, assassin, killer, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, seattle, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Colette is an attractive ex-CIA agent seeking revenge against a ruthless villan and his organization of trained assasins for the murder of her husband while the man is also after mobster Frank Di Vinci for his own personal reasons. It isn't ...
Style:
sexy, independent film, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
femme fatale, murder, sex, women, woman with a gun, female fight, gangster, special agent, criminal's revenge, undercover, race against time, forgery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, usa, vietnam
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ageing hit man, Harry, has just botched a job and is now the target. His daughter is also in the assassin trade and is now a target too. A young hit man called Billy is sent to take Harry out but they form an uneasy alliance...
Style:
suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, rough ...
Plot:
killer, hitman, professional killer, rivalry, family relations, danger, partner, parents and children, terminal illness, contract killer, save the day, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Thailand
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe (Cage) always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in ...
Style:
intense, action packed, suspense, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
hitman, assassin, killer, professional killer, wing chun, assassination, redemption, transformation, contract killer, danger, runaway, gangster ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
asia, bangkok thailand, thailand
Similarity:
100%
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, cult classic, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens
Plot:
martial arts, gangster, police investigation, violent, police corruption, justice, gunfight, danger, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, fight scenes, murder ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa, beijing china, bangkok thailand ...
Similarity:
100%
120K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
manhunt, on the run, cia, agent, conspiracy, escaped prisoner, escape, frame up, traitor, swamp, airplane accident, car chase ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
new york, chicago, kentucky, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
One hundred mid- and low-level gangsters who are on their boss' bad side are locked inside a newly-built high-security prison, and given plenty of guns, ammo, and baseball bats, then told that the last survivor will get a suitcase with 10 ...
Style:
surprise ending, independent film, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brother brother relationship, prison, chess, assassin, gangster, female assassin, fight to the death, mexican standoff, survival, rivalry, redemption, partner ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlist a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Style:
suspense, entertaining, exciting, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, chase, mercenary, gunfight, manhunt, ex military, one against many, tough heroes, drifter, violent, justice, heroic bloodshed ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, political thriller, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, conspiracy, on the run, betrayal, assassination, corruption, assassination plot, politics, lone hero, political corruption, assassination attempt, intrigue ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Kiefer Sutherland is a hard-edged hit man. Known as the world's best professional killer, Sutherland is living a life of detached solitude when he is given an assignment that pairs him up with a sultry hitchhiker (Melora Walters). Before long, ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, professional killer, desert, manhunt, undercover, contract killer, woman kills a man, assassin, investigation, fbi, betrayal, murder ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, sonora, arizona ...
Similarity:
100%
185K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Turkey, Russia, Bulgaria, South Africa
Duration: 89 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, breathtaking, action packed, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hitman, killer, sniper, one man army, assassin, danger, revenge, fight scenes, assassination, conspiracy, gun fu, genetically altered ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, europe, st. petersburg russia, istanbul turkey, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
100%
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3K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
While conveying a Porsche from L.A. to Atlantic City, student Charlie has to make a stop due to engine trouble. Mistaken as rich, he's invited to a big poker game -- and wins big time. However Denny Halloran, son of a mighty mobster, is a bad ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, suspenseful, black comedy, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
gambling, chase, gangster, on the run, poker, car chase, organized crime, casino, hitman, car crash, corrupt cop, gambler ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s, future
Place:
boston, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
female assassin, female fighter, hitman, assassin, contract killer, danger, rivalry, heroes, woman in danger, badass female lead, organized crime, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, shootout, criminal heroes, disorder, chases and races, danger, gangster, law enforcement, crime gone awry, rivalry, good versus evil, bank ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
anal rape, kidnapping, hitman, tough heroes, crime gone awry, disorder, unlikely criminals, master criminal, danger, law enforcement, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, spoof ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, femme fatale, tough heroes, hitman, on the run, police investigation, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, chase, danger, criminal heroes, single parent ...
Place:
usa, texas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
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:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, gang, tattooed woman, mafia, revenge, death of son, gangster, strong female presence, martial arts, hitman, chases and races, vigilantism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A hit man's boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hitman, professional killer, desire, passionate kiss, attraction, killer, assassin, shakespeare, danger, criminal, drug dealing, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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