Movies like Rambo: First Blood Part II

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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
 6.5
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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Style: action packed, harsh, intense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, exciting, retro ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, revenge, rambo, weapons, vietnam war, violent, prisoner, prison, chase, violence, soldier, military, brutality, vietnam veteran, tough heroes, propaganda, pow, gunfight, muscleman, liberation, master warrior, danger, behind enemy lines, daring rescue, heroic mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, arizona, asia, russia, usa
Keyword: reboot, russian, american, vietnamese, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to Rambo: First Blood Part II

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and cult classic films with plots about shootout, pistol, explosion, gunfight, danger, violence and heroes mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Rambo: First Blood Part II: Rambo (2008), Rambo III (1988), Commando (1985), First Blood (1982), Deadly Prey (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rambo (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent ...
Style: brutal, bloody, action packed, grindhouse, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, rambo, violent, lone hero, jungle, warrior, sniper, mercenary, heroes, army, military, survival ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: burma, asia, thailand, arizona, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 5.8
 140K
Rambo III (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when ...
Style: action packed, intense, homoerotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: manly, family outing, boys' night
Plot: one man army, lone hero, rambo, heroes, desert, gunfight, revenge, violence, loner, war, cold war, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: middle east, afghanistan, pakistan, soviet union, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 174K
Commando (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, ...
Style: tense, action packed, serious, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, one man army, hostage, commando, machine gun, rescue, revenge, tough guy, gunfight, villain, machismo, warrior ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: california, los angeles, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 273K
First Blood (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo ...
Style: cult classic, serious, suspense, exciting, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, one man army, vietnam war, manhunt, soldier, tough heroes, tough guy, danger, police brutality, escape, bad cop, lone wolves ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: vietnam, washington state, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Deadly Prey (1987)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ...
Style: action adventure, psychotronic, retro, perverse, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, kidnapping, swamp, exploitation, buddies, serial killer, sex crime, badass, gunfight, fistfight, rapist, psychopath ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Expendables 2 (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
Style: exciting, action packed, bloody, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, ex military, villain, mercenary, hotshot, tough heroes, commando, revenge, terrorist plot, leader, heroes, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, china, new orleans, nepal, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Expendables 3 (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: mercenary, danger, commando, cia, mission, martial arts, partner, spy, violent, heroes, terrorism, rescue ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, bucharest, north america, california, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 363K
The Expendables (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church ...
Style: exciting, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: gunfight, martial arts, tough guy, mercenary, sniper, chase, machismo, assassin, showdown, military, fistfight, shootout ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: latin america, new orleans, somalia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.4
 17K
American Ninja (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter will little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a ...
Style: cult classic, entertaining, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: ninja, martial arts, chase, assassin, fight scenes, karate, heroes, military, master warrior, violence, amnesia, mortal combat ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, futuristic, intense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, gorilla, future war, talking animal, revenge, chimpanzee, animal, killer animal, near death experience, journey ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future, future, 2040s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 10K
Red Scorpion (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa, Namibia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, gunfight, brutality, assassination, justice, gratuitous violence, soldier, mission of murder, politics, war, state affairs, undercover ...
Time: 80s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 79K
Cobra (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
Style: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot: serial killer, murder, car chase, one man army, hostage, police investigation, violence, vigilante, tough cop, gang, rivalry, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, prison, jungle, military, one man army, martial arts, explosions, survival, cannon, war, vietcong, betrayal ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: vietnam, asia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Missing in Action (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vietnam war, jungle, one man army, martial arts, military, heroes, justice, fight scenes, military life, heroic mission, rescue, tough heroes ...
Time: 80s
Place: vietnam, the philippines, thailand, asia, saigon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Executive Decision (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, airplane, hostage, rescue, hijacking, terrorist, hand to hand combat, bomb, surveillance, military, special forces, senator ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
On Deadly Ground (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO, Michael Jennings, is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land, just as long ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, corruption, conspiracy, corporate greed, oil company, environmental, vigilante, oil, revenge, brutality, one man army, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 5K
Men of War (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Nick Gunar is a burnt-out, jaded and hard-up former mercenary who is having a difficult time adjusting to civilian life. At the end of his rope, he is hired by the Nitro Mine Corporation to strong-arm the natives of a South China Sea island into ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: mercenary, jungle, heroes, battles, betrayal, heroic mission, rivalry, danger, rescue, moral dilemma, escapades, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.5
 408
Double Target (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines, India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Miles O’Keeffe stars as an ex-military specialist in Vietnam trying to recover his son after learning that his wife has died in a concentration camp. The government considers the child their property since the war is over. There are others ...
Style: independent film, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, surprise ending ...
Plot: vietnam war, spy, one man army, mission, commando, monster, killing an animal, commando mission, combat, final showdown, henchman, commando unit ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines, bangkok thailand, thailand, southeast asia, vietnam ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Navy Seals (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discover that a terrorist group have access to deadly US built Stinger missiles, and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.
Style: exciting, intense, humorous, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, war, soldier, u.s. navy, battles, heroes, special forces, gunfight, danger, save the day, heroic mission ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: middle east, lebanon, beirut lebanon, north america, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.1
 105K
Broken Arrow (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: terrorism, betrayal, mexican standoff, train, desert, danger, chases and races, escapades, fighter jet, female warrior, rivalry, aviation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, terrorism, police, heist, race against time, bomb, police officer, car chase, revenge, weapons, puzzle, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, north america, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Strike Force team is back in this action-packed sequel to "The Hunt For Eagle One"! Terrorists have stolen a Ground Control Encoder...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle warfare, terrorism, martial arts, lieutenant, rescue, terrorist attack, female fighter, behind enemy lines, heroes, race against time, hostage, kidnapping ...
Place: asia, melbourne, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Behind Enemy Lines (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, prison, world war, heroes, one man army, profanity, captivity, jungle, heroic mission, escapades, danger, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Assault on Devil's Island (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When one of Mike McBride's men goes rogue and takes a group of gymnasts hostage to Devil's Island in exchange for the return of drug lord Carlos Gallindo, the SEALS face their most perilous assignment yet.
Style: sexy, cliffhanger, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female warrior, woman fights a man, dominant woman, hostage, wrestler, wrestling, island, kidnapping, danger, betrayal, race against time, woman hits a man ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: caribbean, washington d.c., seattle, miami, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.4
 356K
The Rock (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 ...
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, action packed, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: terrorism, hostage, prison, alcatraz, twists and turns, military, mercenary, car chase, prison escape, gunfight, chemical weapon, swat team ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa, california, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.4
 72K
Act of Valor (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hotspots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a deadly terrorist attack.
Style: realistic, talky, suspense, intense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, terrorism, rescue mission, terrorist plot, cia, navy seal, swat team, navy, army, soldier, torture, sniper ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: somalia, las vegas, san diego california, costa rica, ukraine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national ...
Style: exciting, rough, political thriller, serious, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, president, hostage, white house, terrorist attack, one man army, daring rescue, u.s. president, politics, secret agent, danger ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, north korea, north america, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, independent film, fast ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, violence, one man army, vigilantism, cold war, machismo, spy, explosions, revenge, terrorism, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: florida, miami, usa, everglades, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
CIA Code Name: Alexa (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, female warrior, cia, spy, female fighter, female fight, woman with a gun, prison break, terrorist, femme fatale, heroes, espionage ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now 007 must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Style: suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: spy, james bond, 007, espionage, chase, secret agent, top secret, secret service, world war three, terrorism, female martial artist, female agent ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: hamburg germany, hong kong, china, vietnam, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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