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The Tesseract (2003)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Thailand, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, mind blowing, realistic, gloomy, experimental, crying, freeze frame ...
Plot:
destiny, female assassin, hitman, assassination attempt, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, police investigation, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, death in the family, death of child, butterfly effect, businessman, killer, professional killer, hotel, assassin, gang, chase, chases and races, drug dealing, law enforcement ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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Most similar movies to The Tesseract
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about deadly, rivalry, murder, gangster, hitman, violence and betrayal mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Tesseract: Betrayal (2003), Backflash (2001), The Jackal (1997), Best Seller (1987), Get Carter (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
female assassin, femme fatale, tough heroes, hitman, on the run, police investigation, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, chase, danger, criminal heroes, single parent ...
Place:
usa, texas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, action packed, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
femme fatale, cons and scams, odd couple, crime gone awry, on the run, danger, desert, heist, store, disorder, criminal's revenge, on the road ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI boss and a former IRA terrorist.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, assassin, assassination attempt, revenge, killer, chase, professional killer, assassination, contract killer, hired killer, terrorism, gangster ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
chicago, washington d.c., russia, moscow russia, montreal ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
hitman, professional killer, killer, writers, serial killer, contract killer, assassin, police detective, vengeance, psychopath, danger, writer's life ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, california, oregon, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a ...
Style:
stylized, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
revenge, hitman, gangster, brutality, murder, videotaped sex, vengeance, lone wolves, assassin, killer, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, seattle, las vegas
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, touching, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, gangster, rivalry, hidden identity, dishonesty, social decay, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, master criminal, assassination attempt, betrayal, disorder ...
Place:
usa, chicago, arkansas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style:
neo noir, ambiguous ending, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, criminal, vigilante, prostitute, destiny, tough heroes, shootout, death of wife, anti hero, organized crime, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jack Higgins' straightforward thriller about a guilt-ridden IRA bomber forced into "one last job"
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, female assassin, redemption, on the run, gangster, haunted by the past, clergy, going straight, assassin, crime boss, ex soldier, one last job ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style:
hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, gang war, organized crime, ghetto, blaxploitation, mafia, drug, hip hop, chase, urban, drug lord ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, piano, danger, confined, master criminal, criminal heroes, mission of murder, undercover, manhunt, law enforcement, hidden identity, chase ...
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from the city's new Mainland government, he ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prostitute, on the run, cons and scams, vengeance, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, drug dealing, rivalry, betrayal, chases and races, prison, partner ...
Place:
hong kong, the philippines, california, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, detective ...
Plot:
masochist, chase, serial killer, police investigation, lost in the woods, police detective, murder, ransom, fbi, police station, race against time, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, miami, usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, tough heroes, manhunt, violence spree, gang, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, murder, heroes, revenge, fugitives, prison escape ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, female killer, professional killer, fugitives, female assassin, attempted rape, killer, female fight, strong female lead, shootout, murder, cancer ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both ...
Style:
exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, hitman, kickboxing, assassin, sniper, gang rape, fight, assassination, chases and races, tough heroes, martial arts, tough guy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bucharest, ukraine, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Style:
hood, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, manhunt, ghetto, addiction, redemption, murder, interracial relations, rise and fall, criminal heroes, journalism, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
detroit, usa, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, black comedy, visually stunning, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, money, mafia, robbery, violence, betrayal, organized crime, twists and turns, greed, anti hero, prostitute ...
Time:
future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
contract killing, hitman, dangerous attraction, murder, manipulation, crime gone awry, hidden identity, femme fatale, couples, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The movie is about a deaf-mute hitman and his partner. Trouble begins when he starts a relationship with a young woman.
Style:
intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
killer, hitman, professional killer, gangster, assassin, violence, fall in love, friendship, love affair, danger, mute or deaf, rivalry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, psychological thriller, cult classic ...
Plot:
hitman, police investigation, murder, memory loss, assassin, one last job, law enforcement, unlikely partners, twists and turns, chess, serial killer, professional killer ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
antwerp, belgium, europe, brussels, netherlands ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Thailand
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe (Cage) always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in ...
Style:
intense, action packed, suspense, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
hitman, assassin, killer, professional killer, wing chun, assassination, redemption, transformation, contract killer, danger, runaway, gangster ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
asia, bangkok thailand, thailand
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mobster orders an undercover FBI agent to torture an accountant.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
undercover, law enforcement, fbi, criminal's revenge, police investigation, police corruption, criminal heroes, master criminal, crime gone awry, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, accountant ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
751
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all ...
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, professional killer, killer, murder, assassin, professional, assassination, master warrior, hitman, gangster, battle zone, working undercover ...
Time:
70s
Place:
hong kong, europe, asia, china, england ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, gangster, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, brother brother relationship, organized crime, lesbian, british gangster, mafia, crime family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, law enforcement, danger, chases and races, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, police officer, chase, police, conspiracy, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, new york, asia, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in ...
Style:
tense, unusual plot structure, serious, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, mafia, criminal's revenge, vengeance, police investigation, murder, hospital, revenge plot, shooting, violence, organized crime, gangster ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
france, marseille, provence, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, absurd, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hitman, perfect crime, murder, serial killer, greed, vengeance, redemption, cons and scams, criminal heroes, gangster, danger, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
italy, berlin germany, europe, france, milan italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers..
Style:
stylized, rough, suspenseful, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, hitman, danger, murder, gangster, betrayal, vigilantism, police investigation, criminal's revenge, chase, master criminal, lone wolves ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Renowned director Samuel Fuller's final film stars Keith Carradine as a former pop music star whose career was cut short after his throat was slit for dating a gangster's girlfriend. Carradine roams the country as a vagrant, until the day ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
yacht, streetfighting, homeless, homeless man, drifter, false accusation, vengeance, gangster, forbidden love, fall in love, alcohol abuse, memory loss ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's ...
Style:
tense, harsh, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, professional killer, gunfight, dark hero, killer, police detective, assassin, heroic bloodshed, fall in love, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
japan, hong kong, china, asia, macau ...
Similarity:
20%
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