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Straight Shooter (1999)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. His former drill sergeant, Frank Hector, who now owns several night clubs and brothels, is the only one who might be able to stop the maniac killing specialist. Frank is flown in instantly, but soon has to find out that his former comrade's actions might be a result from an event long ago.
Style:
exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
french foreign legion, sniper, terrorism, soldier, foreign legion, cancer, mercenary, daughter, secret mission, heroes, murder, undercover, vigilantism, vengeance, rivalry, immigrants, terminal illness, political unrest, death in the family, state affairs, dealing with death, dancing, swat team, killer, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
germany, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about rivalry, chases and races, danger, deadly, heroes, vengeance and revenge mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Straight Shooter: Midnight Man (1997), Ticker (2001), Dead in a Heartbeat (2002), Critical Assembly (2002), Detonator (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Canada, USA, Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 104 min.
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
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boys' night
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
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Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
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Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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