Movies like Universal Soldier
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Universal Soldier (1992)
101K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, cult classic, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, androids and robots, one man army, cyberpunk, vietnam war, soldier, amnesia, rescue mission, mind control, reporter, cyborgs, top secret, psychopath, fight to the death, on the run, hand to hand combat, brutality, chase, blood, scientist, hostage, massacre, laboratory, insanity, manhunt ...
Time:
year 1969, 90s, 20th century, 60s, future, 80s, 1960s ...
Place:
vietnam, louisiana, new orleans, arizona, utah, nevada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and exciting films with plots about violence, fistfight, gun, hand to hand combat, blood, martial arts and murder mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Universal Soldier: Total Recall (1990), Judge Dredd (1995), Demolition Man (1993), Timecop (1994), Soldier (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
378K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who ...
Style:
futuristic, cerebral, cult classic, mind bending, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
kids, manly, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, mars, dystopia, secret agent, dystopian future, virtual reality, memory, memory loss, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, chase ...
Time:
future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1990 ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, tech noir, exciting, stylized ...
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boys' night
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Time:
future, 22nd century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, utopia, psychopath, time travel, satire, maverick cop, totalitarianism, fish out of water, violence ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
80%
69K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Style:
suspense, futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time machine, martial arts, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, time loop, violence, danger, murder, alternate timeline, time jump ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 19th century ...
Place:
washington d.c., canada
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors ...
Style:
futuristic, perverse, apocalyptic, entertaining, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
future war, space travel, genetic engineering, terminator, soldier, space, vigilante, one man army, alien, robot, military, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1998, year 1996
Place:
space western
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
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future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, artificial intelligence, terminator, cyborgs, fight to the death, hand to hand combat, brutality, destiny, shootout, mind control, race against time, computer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
dallas texas, texas
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlist a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Style:
suspense, entertaining, exciting, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, chase, mercenary, gunfight, manhunt, ex military, one against many, tough heroes, drifter, violent, justice, heroic bloodshed ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical ...
Style:
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Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyborgs, time travel, cyberpunk, man versus machine, terminator, androids, androids and robots, dystopia, time machine, on the run, sent to the past ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, near future, year 1984 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, north america, mexico, california
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style:
rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
405K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
John McClane is an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military ...
Style:
exciting, clever, suspense, tense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
washington d.c., virginia, washington state, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night, manly, kids, adult
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
virginia, russia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2003, future, 2000s, 2030s, near future ...
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When terrorists abduct a deadly government attack robot, the call is put out to the Gen-Y Cops, an elite task force with lethal fighting skills. Together with a trigger-happy FBI agent, the Gen-Y Cops race against time to destroy the robot before it ...
Style:
serious, stylized, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary, Spain, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The sixth film in the "Terminator" series will pick up where the second film left off, ignoring all the subsequent sequels.
Style:
saga, action adventure, apocalyptic, tech noir, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
terminator, time travel, robot, androids and robots, gunfight, technology, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, hand to hand combat, killer robot, escape, shapeshifter ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 2019, future, 90s ...
Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
las vegas
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, grim, suspenseful, tense, action thriller ...
Plot:
time travel, submarine, bermuda triangle, dystopia, travel, rebellion, alternate history, alternate timeline, parallel universe, resistance movement, totalitarian regime, secret mission ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time machine, alternate timeline, heroes, martial arts, chase, superhero, heroic mission, undercover, danger, psychopath, changing the past or future ...
Time:
year 1988, 19th century, 80s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, europe, california, texas, new jersey ...
Similarity:
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310K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
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Audience:
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Place:
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Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, tense, epic, intense, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, chick flick
Plot:
superhuman powers, superhero, immortality, chase, supernatural ability, avenger, mutant, comic book, fight scenes, x men, comic hero, yakuza ...
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100%
82K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, apocalyptic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, cannibalism, virus, rescue, infected, danger, distopia, epidemic, female fighter, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 2030s, year 2008, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
scotland, britain, london, england, europe ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Netherlands, Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
futuristic, cyber, tech noir, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
reluctant partners, apocalypse, cyberpunk, woman fights a man, murder of a nude woman, capoeira, dystopian future, gangster, murder, betrayal, gang, prostitute ...
Time:
90s, future, near future
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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37K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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22%
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the ...
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Place:
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67%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, christian film
Plot:
shootout, kidnapping, murder, millionaire, machine gun, betrayal, violence, commando, ak 47, pistol, flashback, warrior ...
Place:
central america
Similarity:
100%
231K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, revenge, murder, surgery, microchip, dystopia, nanotechnology, technology, super soldier, cyborgs, super computer ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mad scientist transfers his mind to a wicked robot, which then embarks on a program of kidnaping, rape and murder, during which a female detective is killed. To fight the robot, the police woman's corpse is then made into a robotrix.
Style:
erotic, cult classic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
male nudity, female nudity, rape, female warrior, kung fu, martial arts, violence, rape and revenge, terminator, murder of a prostitute, male pubic hair, female pubic hair ...
Time:
future
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Universal Soldiers are used to smuggle diamonds for a CIA Director, but Luc Deveroux continues to cause him problems.
Style:
tech noir, exciting, tense, serious, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terminator, military, soldier, killer robot, alien, army, military life, heroes, one man army, violent content, battles, government facility ...
Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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