Movies like The Perfect Weapon 1991

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The Perfect Weapon (1991)
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The Perfect Weapon (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
Style: detective, crime drama, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending, nostalgic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, friendship, one man army, one against many, revenge, crime boss, teacher student relationship, death of friend, brother brother relationship, showdown, fistfight, homecoming, father son estrangement, hand to hand combat, aikido, karate, investigation, hitman, gangster, gang, fight scenes, kickass, martial artist, murder ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: los angeles
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Perfect Weapon

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about martial arts, violence, pistol, murder, brawl, hand to hand combat and tough guy mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Perfect Weapon: Street Knight (1993), Code of Silence (1985), Hard As Nails (2001), Hard to Kill (1990), Out for Justice (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Street Knight (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, cannon, vigilantism, kung fu, police detective, teenage life, gang, hostage, gangster, gang warfare, city life, against the odds ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Code of Silence (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style: exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police officer, one man army, revenge, explosions, police, mafia, gangster, chase, hitman, police investigation, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 149
Hard As Nails (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After being punished for disobedience and arranging an arms deal with Russian mobsters, young member Takura violently takes over control of his Japanese mafia family. Takura takes advantage of his new position and is proceeding his deal with the ...
Style: crime drama, neo noir, detective, independent film
Plot: yakuza, martial arts, ak 47, female nudity, prostitute, gangster, sexploitation, undercover cop, arms deal, stripper, attempted rape, strip club ...
Time: 2000s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 32K
Hard to Kill (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son ...
Style: suspense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hospital, martial arts, revenge, vigilante, one man army, coma, murder, violence, hitman, conspiracy, mixed martial arts, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 1990, 90s
Place: los angeles, chicago, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Out for Justice (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his Partner was someone's mistake, because he's now Out For Justice.
Style: detective, suspense, neo noir, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vigilante, martial arts, gangster, psychopath, organized crime, aikido, revenge, car chase, shootout, violence, hitman, serial killer ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Urban Justice (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, martial arts, gang, investigation, chase, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 341
Deadly Target (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Chinese gangster in Los Angeles escapes on the eve of his deportation to Hong Kong. A martial-arts master detective and his ragtag team get caught up in the action as they track down this ruthless killer.
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, triad, cop, gangster, gang, chinese mafia, heroes, law enforcement, missing person, chases and races, rivalry, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Last Man Standing (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police corruption, martial arts, chase, partner, bank, master criminal, law enforcement, police investigation, vengeance, friendship, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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A Force of One (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.
Style: independent film, christmas horror, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, police, karate, serial killer, xmas, murder mystery, vigilante, kung fu, blaxploitation, immunity, showdown ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 2K
Trouble Man (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks ...
Style: neo noir, crime drama, cult classic, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, black, frame up, female boss, music, woman with a gun, boxing, gambling, police, murder, billiards ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.1
 1K
Hot Boyz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style: hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Out for a Kill (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, good versus evil, organized crime, gangster, prison, murder, chinese mafia, revenge, prisoner, violence, law enforcement ...
Place: china, paris france, hong kong, asia, new haven connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Best of the Best II (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In an underground fight club, blackbelt Travis Brickley is killed after losing to the evil martial arts master Brakus. Travis' death is witnessed by Walter Grady, the son of his best friend Alex Grady. Alex and his partner, Tommy Lee, vow to ...
Style: serious, suspense, independent film, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, master warrior, karate, friends, rivalry, contests and competitions, violence, death, kung fu, revenge, fighter ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.4
 396
Maximum Force (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, renegade, gangster, police detective, prostitute, chase, undercover, computer cracker, cop, partner, against the odds, working undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Marked for Death (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, gangster, murder, violence, good versus evil, revenge, voodoo, jamaican, drug lord, car chase, sword fight ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.0
 748
Bounty Tracker (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Almost the whole staff of a tax consultant office is slayed by a team of professional killers, only Paul Damone can escape. He didn't know that his partner used to wash gangster Louis Sarazin's money and had to testify as chief witness ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police protection, revenge, one man army, vigilante, gangster, murder, master warrior, heroes, bounty hunter, cop, killer ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.8
 2K
The Cutter (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A former cop turned Los Angeles P.I. takes on a case of a missing diamond cutter that leads him on an adventure of love and villainy spanning of mob to the present day Jewelry District.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, rescue, chase, missing person, martial arts, police investigation, daring rescue, rivalry, danger, escapades, master criminal, law enforcement ...
Place: los angeles, usa, europe, germany, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Pistol Whipped (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gambling, spy, aikido, downfall, danger, introspection, life is a bitch, dishonesty, redemption, father daughter relationship, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Martial Outlaw (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A DEA agent and his brother, a Los Angeles cop, battle the Russian mafia.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: martial arts, two man army, police shootout, karate, police detective, siblings relations, kgb, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, chases and races, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Original Gangstas (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created ...
Style: hood, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vigilante, urban, female warrior, vigilantism, gang, murder, black, ghetto, vengeance, tough heroes, culture clash ...
Time: year 1996, year 2016, 90s
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Double Impact (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, twins, blood, murder, brother brother relationship, female bodybuilder, revenge, violence, tough heroes, instructor, siblings relations, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: hong kong, los angeles, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
An Eye for an Eye (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Style: suspense, serious, cult classic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, chase, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, police, partner, danger, fighting crime, drug dealing, rivalry, chases and races ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: san francisco, bay area, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.4
 6K
Dragon Eyes (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In St. Jude, drug dealers and corrupt cops have destroyed an urban neighborhood. But newcomer, Hong, has the fighting skills and moral vision to save this town from itself.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, rough, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fight, martial arts, rivalry, vigilantism, small town, police corruption, master warrior, gang, righting the wronged, tough heroes, good versus evil, attempted murder ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Assassination Games (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: kickboxing, hitman, assassin, vengeance, assassination, chases and races, sniper, gang rape, martial arts, one against many, revenge, tragic hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bucharest, ukraine, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.0
 34K
Above the Law (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Style: suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, conspiracy, aikido, corruption, brutality, vengeance, drug dealing, cia, police, kung fu, police officer, vietnam war ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, vietnam, usa, las vegas, illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.0
 835
Angel Town (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's mother keep him out of the ...
Style: action adventure, hood, independent film, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, martial arts, master warrior, gangster, mixed martial arts, ghetto, karate, kung fu, heroes, vigilante, single mother, violence spree ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.9
 1K
Slaughter (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gangster, vietnam war, organized crime, murder, black, profanity, heroes, vigilantism, mobster, male nudity, black hero ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 10K
Rapid Fire (1992)
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, intense, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, gangster, police investigation, police corruption, justice, gunfight, danger, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, fight scenes, violent, murder ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: chicago, los angeles, usa, bangkok thailand, beijing china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.4
 794
Back in Action (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.
Style: erotic, suspense, detective, independent film, neo noir
Plot: organized crime, martial arts, mobster, wrestling, making love, sex scene, green beret, unrequited love, vigilante, buddy cop, gun fu, thug ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.8
 489
Lion Strike (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dr. Johnny Wu becomes involved in a global Mafia arms cartel when they kidnap his son Bobby. The cartel, made-up of underworld leaders from around the world, become aware that he stumbled onto valuable information on a computer disk he possesses. ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, female warrior, fight, competition, woods, hitman, chase, master warrior, heroes, kidnapping, murder, gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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