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The Loner (1987)
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Original name: Le Solitaire
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.
Style:
rough, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, fighting crime, loss of partner, law enforcement, police detective, police chase, revenge, police officer, boy, graphic violence, chase, rivalry, godparent, tough law enforcer, police, murder, cemetery, orphan, nightclub, police violence, godfather, gambling house, police officer killed, chases and races, swimming pool ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Most similar movies to The Loner
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, law enforcement, police officer, police, graphic violence, chases and races and murder mostly in Crime, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Loner: The Outsider (1983), The Professional (1981), Borsalino (1970), Go Fast (2008), The Night Caller (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, gangsters, police officer, revenge, fighting crime, drug abuse, injustice, lone wolves, hotshot hero, lgbtq, gang, drug lord ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
france, paris france, europe, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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, tense, harsh, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, prison, assassination, car chase, secret agents, suspense, hitman, lone hero, fighting the system, government agency, on the run, tough heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, friendship, uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes, tough heroes, ex convict, boxing, italian mafia, organized crime, interwar period, buddies ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
europe, france, south of france, provence, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, vengeance, rivalry, drug dealing, gang, law enforcement, working undercover, marijuana, loss of partner, car chase, gangsters, police procedural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, car chase, psychopath, bank robbery, chase, woman in danger, strangulation, homicidal maniac, law enforcement, evil man, criminal ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Series like Gang Related
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall) vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
city, car chase, sociopath, police officer, gangsters, graphic violence, police detective, tough heroes, loss of partner, vigilantism, law enforcement, vengeance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, murder, ex convict, diamond, warden, crime and punishment, coldhearted, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, vengeance, on the run ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
police, vengeance, police investigation, fighting crime, rivalry, law enforcement, self discovery, uninhibited rivalry, murder, suspense, villain, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dishonesty, drug dealing, partners, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, buddies, graphic violence, friends, police corruption, alcohol abuse, betrayal, female impersonator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police officer, rap star, chase, hip hop, investigation, rivalry, vengeance, car chase, murder, drug dealing, gangsters, urban ghetto life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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:
realistic, tense, rough, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, psychopath, ex cop, investigation, femme fatale, rivalry, police detective, serial killer, police, revenge, police officer, chase ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
police officer, murder, chase, police, revenge, witness, robbery, threat, gunfight, burglar, false accusation, falsely accused ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before killing them.
Style:
exciting, rough, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, juvenile delinquency, heist, unlikely criminals, law enforcement, master criminal, reluctant partners, working undercover, tough heroes, police detective, spy, bank robbery ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, law enforcement, fish out of water, criminal heroes, dishonesty, culture clash, disorder, tough heroes, organized crime, hitman, spy, killer ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, paris france, usa, california, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Style:
exciting, tense, cynical, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, interwar period, criminal, loss of partner, vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, criminal's revenge, violence spree, criminal heroes ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
france, marseille, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Alain Delon as retired police officer Daniel Pratt. His teenager daughter was killed by a gang of mysterious hooded killers so Pratt began his own ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, murder, police corruption, graphic violence, tough heroes, dishonesty, rivalry, violence spree, one man army, law enforcement, heroes, village ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, france, europe, congo
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
Style:
serious, psychological, captivating, tense, rough ...
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, vengeance, rivalry, fighting crime, law enforcement, police detective, suspense, murder, hollywood, partners against crime, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe, albania, antwerp
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, intrigue, dishonesty, lifestyle, nightlife, police corruption, betrayal, gangsters, friendship, suspense, police officer, organized crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A major police operation to take down a notorious gang of bank robbers goes horribly wrong when a rooftop sniper opens fire, killing several police officers and causing an explosive distraction in which the robbers make their getaway. Commissioner ...
Style:
serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful, twisted ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, police investigation, police detective, rivalry, track down, chase, sniper, escapades, suspense, violent, nypd, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drugs, working undercover, rivalry, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, revenge, male female relationship, friendship, police, murder, war on drugs ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Professional similar movies
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, microfilm
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, heist, tough heroes, police detective, loss of partner, vengeance, dishonesty, investigation, tough law enforcer, rivalry, law enforcement, armored car ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, police officer, car chase, gangsters, psychopath, chase, injustice, vigilantism, serial killer, rivalry, vengeance, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After ten years in prison, vicious crime boss Mario Blanco is out for revenge. Revenge against the cop that put him away. Revenge at any cost! But David, the officer that sent Blanco to jail has been in hiding since quitting the force after exposing ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
chase, gangsters, car chase, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, law enforcement, revenge, police, police shootout, attempted rape, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young renegade undercover cop with a propensity for violence and a past history involving the murder of his cop father and the remainder of his family is recruited by a vigilante group with a leader who wants only to kill all criminals and those ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, neo noir
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, working undercover, police shootout, police officer, home invasion, car chase, society, vengeance, police investigation, self discovery, criminal heroes, master criminal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, spy, rivalry, dishonesty, police corruption, law enforcement, undercover, snitch, police shootout, investigation, revenge, fighting crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the driver over an affair with his wife.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tough heroes, estrangement, rebellion, unsupportive spouse, criminal's revenge, society, fighting crime, dishonesty, on the run, tough law enforcer, introspection, against the rules ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, cynical, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, chase, partners, police investigation, police corruption, dishonesty, criminal heroes, investigation, criminal, suspense, robbery, car ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
greece, athens greece, france, europe
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35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manipulation, dishonesty, gang, tv show, rivalry, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, track down, criminal heroes, journalism, media, police officer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Vincent is a crooked cop whose drug heist goes wrong when he is stabbed and the criminals he is robbing discover his identity. Vincent escapes with a huge bag of cocaine, but discovers his loot belongs to a powerful mob boss who kidnaps ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, nightclub, kidnapping, law enforcement, crime gone awry, cop as target, family in danger, drug dealing, chase, rivalry, corrupt law enforcer, police corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Police Inspector Samar Pratap Singh is transferred to Motihari, in the Indian state of Bihar, along with his wife, Manjari and a daughter. He is honest and diligent and these attributes sets him up against his superior - the District Superintendent ...
Style:
dark, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, police officer, revenge, vigilantism, fighting the system, loss of daughter, rebellion, society, fighting crime, rivalry, workplace, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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