Movies like Nikita 1990

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Nikita (1990)
 7.3
 76K
Nikita (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Style: neo noir, suspense, stylized, atmospheric, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, erotic, sincere, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female assassin, hitman, female killer, spy, mentor, assassin, undercover, secret government organization, impossible love, bodyguard, training, woman with a gun, double life, young woman, female agent, espionage, female spy, robbery, secret agent, femme fatale, undercover agent, working undercover, vengeance, anti heroine, mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place: france, paris france, venice, europe, italy
Keyword: gangsters, french, reboot, oldies

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Most similar movies to Nikita

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, realistic and suspense films with plots about murder, hitman, violence, danger, spy, shot in the head and pistol mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Nikita: Point of No Return (1993), Léon: The Professional (1994), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Colombiana (2011), Red Sparrow (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Point of No Return (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female assassin, hitman, espionage, female warrior, female killer, female martial artist, murder, female spy, death penalty, chase, kick-butt women, spy ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: washington d.c., new orleans, california, venice, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Léon: The Professional (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style: neo noir, rough, suspenseful, touching, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: hitman, mentor, revenge, friendship, loneliness, organized crime, murder, sniper, redemption, loner, life philosophy, killings ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, france, paris france, iran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to ...
Style: suspense, intense, serious, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, hitman, strong female lead, terrorism, chase, female assassin, cia, female protagonist, espionage, christmas, terrorist plot ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, pennsylvania, usa, atlantic city new jersey, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 54K
Nikita (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
Style: exciting, stylized, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: female killer, hitman, spy, tough girl, female spy, female assassin, strong female lead, mole, double life, secret government organization, female protagonist, heroine ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 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%
 6.6
 200K
Red Sparrow (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, sexy, rough, brutal ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: spy, uncle niece relationship, female spy, female agent, russian spy, female assassin, secret agent, deception, femme fatale, secret mission, torture, strong female character ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, budapest, ussr, hungary, chechnya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.6
 93K
Anna (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Style: suspense, action thriller, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: spy, female assassin, female protagonist, female spy, one woman army, female agent, cia agent, murder, double agent, assassin, model, russian spy ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 80s, year 1985 ...
Place: paris france, moscow russia, russia, milan italy, bahamas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.5
 8K
Naked Weapon (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female assassin, hitman, female killer, assassination, female martial artist, woman kills a man, one woman army, rape and revenge, terrorism, tough heroes, revenge, martial arts ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: hong kong, japan, china, the philippines, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.5
 62K
Ava (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: woman with a gun, assassin, female assassin, female agent, one woman army, murder, female spy, woman fights a man, strong female character, female killer, intelligence agency, female protagonist ...
Time: 2020s
Place: saudi arabia, paris france, boston, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 135K
Killer Elite (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, hitman, secret service, mentor, conspiracy, hostage, undercover, rescue, espionage, mercenary, secret agent, assassination ...
Time: year 2011, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: middle east, london, australia, iran, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 194K
Ronin (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, car chase, mafia, cia, mercenary, car, undercover, caper, chase, shootout, ira, secret agent ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, nice france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 90K
Haywire (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by ...
Style: talky, intense, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: one woman army, spy, secret agent, espionage, betrayal, assassin, rescue, mercenary, chases and races, revenge, danger, rivalry ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: ireland, washington d.c., europe, usa, mallorca ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 407K
Wanted (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Doormat Wesley Gibson discovers that his recently murdered father – who Wesley never knew – belonged to a secret guild of assassins. After a leather-clad sexpot drafts Wesley into the society, he hones his innate killing skills and turns avenger.
Style: exciting, action packed, entertaining, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: hitman, gunfight, revenge, assassin, femme fatale, mentor, escapades, car chase, betrayal, twists and turns, mission, superhuman powers ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, political, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: secret service, obsession, election, assassin, assassination attempt, conspiracy, assassination of president, assassination plot, president, gunfight, hitman, terrorism ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1992
Place: washington d.c., california, los angeles, usa, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Professional (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to kill the president Njala of an African country. However, a counter-order is given before he can execute his mission and he is abandoned in the hands of foreign authorities. He escapes and seeks revenge by ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, suspense, harsh, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, assassination, female nudity, car chase, tough heroes, hitman, lone hero, on the run, fighting the system, chases and races, government agency, revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 431K
Collateral (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style: neo noir, clever, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: hitman, hostage, taxi driver, taxi, killer, twists and turns, killings, sociopath, assassin, merciless, murderer, nihilism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 171K
The Mechanic (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But ...
Style: clever, stylized, brutal, tense, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, assassin, chase, mentor, lone hero, loner, martial arts, tough guy, vengeance, revenge, deception, arms dealer ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, colombia, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who ...
Style: non-linear, bloody, tense, cult classic, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, vengeance, martial arts, mentor, one man army, female protagonist, heroine, yakuza, hitman, sword, dark hero, violence ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, 80s, 90s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, persia, austin texas, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.1
 656
Double Tap (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
Style: independent film, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassin, hitman, professional, killer, terrorism, outlaw, mad love, investigation, undercover cop, profanity, strong violent content, sexual content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 14K
Bitch Slap (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $200 Million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin.
Style: sexy, grindhouse, stylized, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: lesbian, femme fatale, anti heroine, female martial artist, anti hero, female protagonist, gratuitous violence, crime gone awry, adaptation, brutality, culture clash, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
From Paris with Love (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig, working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with ...
Style: entertaining, intense, semi serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, spy, terrorism, chase, heroic mission, embassy, danger, one man army, shootout, twists and turns, espionage, secret agent ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 206K
Hanna (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.
Style: suspense, fairy tale, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: teenage girl, spy, hitman, assassin, vengeance, chase, female warrior, strong female lead, cia, female protagonist, espionage, woman with a gun ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: finland, berlin germany, germany, europe, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.2
 97K
3 Days to Kill (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, exciting, serious, action thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: secret service, hitman, cia, danger, parents and children, agent, assassin, family reunited, terminal illness, one last job, illness, undercover ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, langley virginia, belgrade serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.4
 734K
John Wick (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Style: stylized, exciting, neo noir, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: hitman, vengeance, revenge, one man army, vigilante, assassin, gunfight, shooting, lone hero, tough guy, killer, dog ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 60s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 124K
The Jackal (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI boss and a former IRA terrorist.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination attempt, chase, revenge, cold war, terrorism, lone wolves, assassination, gangster, conspiracy, murder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: chicago, washington d.c., russia, montreal, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, revenge, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, cop, male pubic hair, chase, hitman, organized crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Replacement Killers (1998)
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: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, vengeance, chase, assassin, on the run, martial arts, female warrior, organized crime, police detective, police raid, attempted murder, tough girl ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: china, los angeles, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 74K
District B13 (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ghetto, gang, parkour, fight, undercover cop, tough guy, bomb, betrayal, urban ghetto, crime boss, heroes ...
Time: future, near future, year 2004, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ 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%
 6.1
 38K
The Protege (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, perverse, cult classic ...
Plot: female assassin, female killer, revenge, assassin, murder, vengeance, hitman, female warrior, drone, seduction, female protagonist, chase ...
Time: future, year 1991, 90s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: bucharest, vietnam, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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