Movies like Pressure 2002

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Pressure (2002)
 5.7
 1K
Pressure (2002)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: "Pressure" follows two med students who must struggle to survive after an unusual shooting incident catapults them into a world of trouble...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cheerleader, chases and races, law enforcement, police corruption, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, supernatural, manhunt, on the road, chase, small town, dancing, sniper, fight, murder, hospital, sadist, fbi agent, best friend, sheriff, medical student, self sacrifice, false accusation ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

Most similar movies to Pressure

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about chases and races, law enforcement, deadly, murder, dishonesty, rivalry and danger mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Pressure: Top of the World (1997), Betrayal (2003), Scar City (1998), Shadow Conspiracy (1997), Cold Steel (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Top of the World (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, casino, false accusation, criminal heroes, police investigation, crime gone awry, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, chases and races, dishonesty, partner, die hard ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 1K
Betrayal (2003)
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: tough heroes, on the run, chase, dishonesty, police investigation, female assassin, master criminal, criminal heroes, single parent, femme fatale, danger, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 918
Scar City (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young cop gets thrown in with a special police squad who are acting as assassins against hoods and who don't care who gets in the way.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, law enforcement, police investigation, partner, undercover, cop, murder, partners against crime, criminal's revenge, fighting crime, police corruption, villain ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
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, on the run, conspiracy, betrayal, assassination, corruption, politics, political corruption, intrigue, witnessing a crime, life turned upside down, political intrigue ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 925
Cold Steel (1987)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, psychopath, ex cop, investigation, rivalry, femme fatale, police detective, serial killer, xmas, revenge, police, police officer ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Instinct to Kill (2001)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs ...
Style: serious, rough, disturbing, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, martial arts, police investigation, psychopath, murder, master criminal, danger, rivalry, vengeance, law enforcement, infidelity, dishonesty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.1
 289
Sunstorm (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When The General is assassinated in the streets of San Juan, his four daughters are left embroiled in a scheme that leads all the way to the CIA and U.S. Treasury department. Now they must rely on each other to escape with their lives.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, assassination, cons and scams, vengeance, siblings relations, rivalry, race against time, dishonesty, law enforcement, unlikely partners, sister sister relationship, spy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.0
 1K
Bloodmatch (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, intergender wrestling, fight, female fighter, kickass, female fight, revenge, sex scene, woman fights a man, kung fu, fistfight ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.5
 710
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, danger, chases and races, gangster, shootout, crime gone awry, rivalry, law enforcement, good versus evil, bank ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.7
 644
Target (2004)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: U.S. Army sniper Charlie Snow finds himself at the other end of the crosshairs when the brother of an Eastern European arms dealer whom he killed decides to take vengeance on Charlie and his family in L.A.
Style: realistic, serious, rough
Plot: terrorism, sniper, rivalry, soldier, danger, state affairs, chases and races, law enforcement, hostage, kidnapping, save the day, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 8K
Into the Sun (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, law enforcement, martial arts, assassination, fbi, gangster, master criminal, undercover, race against time, danger, katana, martial artist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, thailand, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 2K
Made Men (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the money is hidden but instead leads them into a trap at a backwoods crystal-meth factory. The gangsters ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the run, 007, meme, manhunt, gangster, disorder, master criminal, crime gone awry, dishonesty, law enforcement, police investigation, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
 13K
The Patriot (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A deadly virus threatens to wipe out an entire Rocky Mountain town, leaving the town doctor to find some way to escape the soldiers who enforce the town's quarantine and devise an antidote. Matters take a more deadly turn after the physician is ...
Style: melancholic, exciting, serious, rough, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, small town, virus, doctor, death, epidemic, chase, indians, violence, fight scenes, father daughter relationship, hospital ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
 535
Last Run (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Frank Banner used to specialize in helping Soviet spies defect safely to the West. Banner's wife was shot to death aiding such an escape. Now, with the Cold War over, Banner is called upon to safely escort an ex-K.G.B. man who is wanted dead by ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, on the run, undercover, secret agent, danger, vengeance, law enforcement, rivalry, working undercover, haunted by the past, spy, espionage ...
Time: year 1989
Place: hungary, europe, central europe, moscow russia, budapest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 6K
Most Wanted (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col Grant Casey. Their mission is to neutralize criminals who had ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political conspiracy, frame up, manhunt, investigation, on the run, assassination, death row, conspiracy, sniper, false accusation, bomb, parachuting ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Lost Samaritan (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a long night at the office, an accountant stops to help an injured motorist and ends up becoming the target of two dangerous assassins.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, police corruption, danger, special agent, frame up, on the run, dishonesty, chases and races, survival, murderous pair, violent content, night ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.3
 486
Butter (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her cousin/manager for the murder forcing him to go on the run and to try to get the ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: home invasion, black, murder, chases and races, on the run, chase, law enforcement, dishonesty, life is a bitch, musician's life, urban, city life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Midnight Witness (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Renegade cops are videotaped murdering a motorist and the witnesses are in danger of being their next victims.
Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: police corruption, law enforcement, chases and races, misfit, dishonesty, life is a bitch, on the run, danger, chase, witnessing a crime, police detective, injustice ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Critical Assembly (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Critical Assembly is based on two college students (Katherine Heigl and Kerr Smith) who build a nuclear device, which is stolen by a fellow student. When it ends up in the hands of a terrorist, they work with an FBI agent (Beach) in a race against ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, race against time, law enforcement, chases and races, danger, state affairs, heroes, undercover, hitman, terrorist group, media coverage, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.6
 687
Hit List (1989)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A family man (Jan-Michael Vincent) and a mob witness (Leo Rossi) hunt a mob hit man (Lance Henriksen) who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, organized crime, mafia, missing person, disorder, vengeance, rescue, investigation, mistaken identity, drug dealing, danger, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.6
 401
The Collectors (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shifting alliances put a pair of hardnosed hit men in jeopardy in this 1999 crime caper. A New Orleans mob boss looking to settle scores sends Ray (Rick Fox) and A.K. (Casper Van Dien) to New York City to collect overdue debts.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partner, gangster, violent content, car chase, criminal's revenge, chases and races, rivalry, criminal heroes, gory, tough heroes, buddies, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new orleans, new york, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Detonator (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, terrorism, undercover, on the run, woman in danger, save the day, survival, espionage, race against time, witnessing a crime, rivalry, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
To Protect and Serve (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.
Style: erotic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, die hard, nudity, profanity, police detective, serial killer, chases and races, survival, rivalry, dishonesty, investigation, vigilantism ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 5.0
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Forced to Kill (1994)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A repo man tries to deliver a repossessed Jaguar. He's captured by a bizarre family, straight out of the backwoods, who force him to fight in an illegal, bare-fist tournament run by an insane sheriff.
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hicksploitation, master warrior, chase, one man army, martial arts, murder, tough heroes, law enforcement, lone wolves, danger, mad scientist, vigilantism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.4
 330
Shotgun (1989)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Detective Ian 'Shotgun' Jones hunts a sadistic misogynistic maniac.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, revenge, bondage, prostitute, police operation, illegal prostitution, gangster, murder, police corruption, riddles and clues, rivalry, drug dealing ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.9
 754
Ambushed (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ...
Style: suspense, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: racism, youth, nypd, xenophobia, police, ku klux klan, white supremacy, special agent, partner, chases and races, dishonesty, legal investigation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, martial arts, assassination, heroes, on the run, murder, conspiracy, politics, manhunt, protagonist as suspect, rivalry, undercover ...
Place: british columbia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 2.7
 5K
Mitchell (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A tough-guy cop (Joe Don Baker) pursues two drug runners (Martin Balsam, John Saxon) across the city to bust a large syndicate. Very much an anti-hero, Mitchell often ignores the orders of his superiors and demonstrates disdain for by-the-book ...
Style: suspense, grindhouse, detective, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, car chase, chase, prostitute, motorcycle, crime wave, helicopter, silly humor, cons and scams, police corruption, city life, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
House of the Rising Sun (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ray, an ex-cop, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal past is exposed Ray hunts for the person responsible ...
Style: serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nightclub, gangster, protagonist as suspect, on the run, investigation, law enforcement, heroes, tough heroes, dishonesty, frame up, violent content, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: small town, manhunt, chase, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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