Movies like Taffin

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Taffin (1988)
 5.6
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Taffin (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero (Brosnan) wages an all out war.
Style: cult classic, political, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, independent film, freeze frame ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: small town, gangster, debt collector, violence, death, betrayal, brutality, chase, blood, greed, environmental, violent, 007, explosions, irish mob, martial arts, heroes, conspiracy, fighting the system, one man army, gang, life is a bitch, rebellion, vigilantism, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: ireland, europe, california, san francisco
Keyword: irish, gangsters, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to Taffin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, neo noir, surprise ending and exciting films with plots about held at gunpoint, fight, gunfight, shootout, blood, beating and machine gun mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Taffin: Detonator II: Night Watch (1995), Malone (1987), One in the Chamber (2012), Fire Down Below (1997), The Foreigner (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Detonator II: Night Watch (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Croatia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch". The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and involves them in not only art ...
Style: suspense, serious, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: art theft, espionage, investigation, partner, undercover, spy, danger, escapades, female warrior, famous painting, heist, forgery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: amsterdam, asia, europe, new york, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.8
 4K
Malone (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, cia agent, murder, undercover, uninhibited rivalry, on the run, chase, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, assassin, vigilante ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, langley virginia, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
One in the Chamber (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes, violence spree, chases and races, murder, mob boss, gangster, corruption, mob hit, stalking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, prague, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Fire Down Below (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, Taggart is sent in -- posing as ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, spiritual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, environment, toxic, small town, brutality, betrayal, investigation, environmentalism, danger, good versus evil, dishonesty, beautiful scenery ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: kentucky, usa, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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The Foreigner (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA, India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. His relentless search ...
Style: suspense, exciting, harsh, independent film, political ...
Plot: revenge, terrorism, bomb, tough guy, one against many, ira, hand to hand combat, justice, ex special forces, battles, terrorist, martial arts ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: united kingdom, ireland, afghanistan, iraq, northern ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 5.4
 16K
I Am Wrath (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
Style: tense, exciting, suspense, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot: revenge, murder, police corruption, vengeance, danger, brutality, violence, paranoia, sociopath, gangster, vigilante, vigilantism ...
Place: ohio, columbus ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 5.6
 5K
Eliminators (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, agent, hitman, revenge, widower, daughter, pursuit, mistaken identity, manhunt, father daughter relationship, police, police officer ...
Time: 2010s
Place: washington d.c., england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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 ⇓
90%
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The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A chemical spill has caused the occupants of Beverly Hills to be forcibly evacuated. A retiring football player left behind, finds that the toxic gas emulating from the spill is a bogus front for a heist set up by fired police officers out to ...
Style: action thriller, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, die hard, evacuation, master criminal, race against time, danger, one man army, on the run, chase, car chase, heist, profanity ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: beverly hills, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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 ⇓
88%
 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 ⇓
88%
 5.9
 42K
Braven (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scenic, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly, manly
Plot: father son relationship, cocaine, wilderness, daughter, home invasion, mountain cabin, archery, mercilessness, fight, drug, murder, fight to the death ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 5.5
 12K
Action Jackson (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.
Style: cult classic, neo noir, black comedy, action comedy, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, violence, black, chase, nudity, police investigation, frame up, death, police, car chase, brutality, drug addiction ...
Time: 80s
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 5.8
 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 ⇓
87%
 5.6
 9K
Skin Trade (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests. NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, sex slavery, gangster, ak 47, tough heroes, rivalry, vengeance, police investigation, master criminal, fight, investigation, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, asia, thailand, new jersey, cambodia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Year of the Gun (1991)
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill ...
Style: suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot: terrorism, political intrigue, journalism, mistaken identity, politics, journalist, spy, sexual content, italian history, explosions, photojournalism, writers ...
Time: 70s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1978
Place: italy, rome italy, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
86%
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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 ⇓
86%
 5.6
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Sleepless (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs’ teenage son. In one sleepless night ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: organized crime, undercover cop, kidnapping, police corruption, tough cop, female warrior, rescue, father son relationship, brutality, race against time, police detective, car chase ...
Time: year 2017
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 4.6
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The Prince (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, daring rescue, partner, justice, danger, retired, confined, haunted by the past, father daughter relationship, revenge, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Street Fighters (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, jail, home invasion, gangster, vigilante justice, rape, urban, rape and revenge, underground ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Hard Target 2 (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Style: suspense, disturbing, brutal, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxer, jungle warfare, female warrior, jungle, muscleman, hunting, hunter, rescue, fight, one man army, courage ...
Time: 2010s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, burma, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Movie in collections
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Extraction (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord…
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, action thriller, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: manly, chick flick
Plot: mercenary, rescue mission, one against many, kidnapping, one man army, ex special forces, machismo, tough guy, death threat, swat team, jungle, child ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: india, bangladesh, australia, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Protector (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities ...
Style: perverse, action adventure, retro, crime drama, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, triad, mixed martial arts, gunfight, buddy cop, mitsubishi, combat, kickass, partner, gangster, kidnapping, rescue ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: hong kong, new york, usa, china, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Condemned 2 (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the death as part of a game that's broadcast to the public.
Style: cliffhanger, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: revenge, frame up, betrayal, chase, tough guy, brutality, deception, gambling, psychopath, murder, money, bomb ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 4.4
 405
Mask of Death (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies in a car crash shortly thereafter. The FBI persuades ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, fugitives, fistfight, fbi, timebomb, tattoo, plastic surgery, shootout, betrayal, undercover, assassination attempt, hitman ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Contract to Kill (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team--seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp--he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, touching, suspense ...
Plot: aikido, martial arts, female warrior, conspiracy, cia agent, hitman, secret agent, woman fights a man, undercover, fbi agent, shootout, home invasion ...
Time: 2010s
Place: el paso texas, sonora, istanbul turkey, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.9
 4K
Truck Turner (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when he's hired to capture sociopathic pimp Gator, he finds himself confronted by the most vicious killers in the ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, blaxploitation, bare breasts, exploitation, car chase, african american, tough guy, organized crime, truck, cowboy, hip hop, black ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.6
 37K
Exit Wounds (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style: stylized, suspense, black comedy, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, chase, police, aikido, martial arts, kidnapping, police investigation, corrupt cop, conspiracy, secret service, justice, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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