Movies like Arena
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Arena (2011)
13K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
David Lord finds himself forced into the savage world of a modern gladiatorial arena, where men fight to the death for the entertainment of the online masses.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, erotic, homoerotic, perverse, action thriller
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
underground fighting, fight to the death, tough heroes, survival, violence spree, escapades, escape, violence, kidnapping, internet, blood, arena, car crash, martial arts, fight, murder, serial killer, rescue, male female relationship, one man army, twists and turns, tough guy, combat, abduction, prisoner ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
london, seattle, paris france, mexico, hong kong, sydney australia, seattle washington
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Most similar movies to Arena
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about violence, gun, pistol, martial arts, rivalry, blood and shootout mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Arena: The Condemned (2007), Ninja Assassin (2009), Kill 'em All (2012), Everly (2014), Submerged (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from ...
Style:
exciting, action packed, intense, harsh, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
death row, last man standing, island, brutality, website, jungle, vengeance, chase, battles, criminal heroes, prison, revenge ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the ...
Style:
bloody, brutal, exciting, fast paced, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, revenge, kung fu, assassin, martial artist, one man army, vengeance, hand to hand combat, fight to the death, ninjitsu, assassination ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 21st century
Place:
china, osaka japan, berlin germany, asia, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Captured international assassins are locked up inside a high-tech bunker known as the Killing Chamber. To break out of this concrete hell they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas and battle against gangs of masked maniacs. And... if they ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, mortal combat, medieval, murder, rivalry, tough heroes, captivity, battles, danger, survival, brutality, violence ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
thailand, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and ...
Style:
fast, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, dojo, martial artist, home invasion, die hard, gangster, hostage, master warrior, heroes, heroic mission, danger, forgery ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, yakuza, tough girl, female warrior, strong female lead, sex slave, vigilante, woman kills a man, gangster, female protagonist, german shepherd, gang rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into ...
Style:
stylized, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, martial arts, antidote, poison, undercover, terrorist, rescue, espionage, heroes, soldier, daring rescue, good versus evil ...
Place:
uruguay
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, tough heroes, one man army, danger, state affairs, daring rescue, save the day, law enforcement, chases and races, conspiracy, undercover agent ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
romania, europe, new york, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, spiritual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, vengeance, law enforcement, martial arts, assassination, fbi, gangster, tough heroes, undercover, master criminal, danger, race against time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, thailand, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
NATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin (Laura Harring), who has stolen an extremely valuable and dangerous top-secret container from the Slovakian ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
runaway train, train, terrorism, die hard, one man army, terrorist plot, race against time, fight scenes, rescue, secret agent, tough heroes, save the day ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
vienna, europe, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
85K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
Style:
twist ending, sexy, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
incest, male nudity, revenge, vengeance, father daughter incest, held captive, incestuous relationship, sex with father, violent, incestuous sex, solitary, father daughter sex ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, year 2005, year 2000, year 2001 ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kickboxer, female assassin, female warrior, terrorism, terrorist, spy, female fighter, cia, woman fights a man, female agent, chase, one woman army ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspense, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
teacher, ex soldier, high school, juvenile delinquent, detention, female assassin, high school student, rescue, kidnapping, corrupt cop, one man army, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bosnia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Movie Info When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female killer, female assassin, terrorist, terrorism, spy, cia, martial arts, woman fights a man, kickboxer, woman with a gun, psychopath, working undercover ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
269K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, clever, twist ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot:
prison, prison escape, revenge, outsmarting, escape plan, betrayal, resourceful, escape, prisoner, maximum security prison, prison break, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, usa, miami, new orleans, colorado ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Martial arts expert Matt Hunter was one of the most promising operatives in Army intelligence until his parents were killed by terrorists, and he retired to the family's farm in Louisiana to take care of his 12-year-old sister Sara and their ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, perverse, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, terrorism, martial arts, masked man, terrorist, rescue, survival, one man army, kidnapping, tough heroes, vengeance, save the day ...
Time:
80s
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
420
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, tension ...
Plot:
terrorist, state trooper, vietnam veteran, prison break, hostage situation, hostage, heroes, danger, kidnapping, small town, evacuation, profanity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs ...
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, martial arts, psychopath, abusive husband, police investigation, murder, danger, master criminal, law enforcement, rivalry, vengeance, infidelity ...
Similarity:
100%
881
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens - glorified in the deadly spectacle of The Arena. Stolen from ...
Style:
serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, period piece ...
Plot:
amazon, slave girl, gladiator, female fight, medieval, captivity, contests and competitions, ambition, rebellion, rivalry, rebelliousness, danger ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When former black ops operative Tom Steele and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, martial arts, partner, chase, rescue, confined, tough heroes, master warrior, on the run, danger, jail, die hard ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
texas, oregon, usa
Similarity:
30%
229K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under ...
Style:
brutal, suspenseful, suspense, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, fight, swat, violent, gang, fistfight, trapped, violence, survival, death, kung fu, warrior ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Place:
east asia, middle east, asia, indonesia, hong kong ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This high-powered action flick follows kickboxing champion Johnny Rider, who quits the ring after accidentally killing an opponent but is forced to employ his skills again to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of crime boss Rod Sparks ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, murder, fight, underground fighting, competition, kickboxing, heroes, master warrior, violent content, rivalry, gang, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, one against many, one man army, heroes, athlete's life, tough heroes, vengeance, rivalry, gang, gunfight, corrupt cop, violence ...
Place:
british columbia, middle east, iraq, afghanistan
Similarity:
28%
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 packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, rivalry, criminal heroes, danger, chases and races, violence spree, mob hit, mob boss, murder, corruption, gangster, one against many ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, prague, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, martial arts, survival, one man army, heroes, one against many, chase, island, rivalry, danger, contests and competitions, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation.
Style:
exciting, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
terrorist, death of wife, female warrior, escape from reality, computer cracker, rescue, machismo, murder, deception, brutality, father son relationship, violence ...
Time:
year 2016, 2000s, 2010s, year 2005, year 2004 ...
Place:
langley virginia, central europe, czech republic, prague, usa ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, chases and races, danger, tough heroes, organized crime, hostage, brother brother relationship, deception, husband wife relationship, martial arts, sadist, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vancouver, seattle
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
one man army, secret identity, tough heroes, confined, danger, special agent, professional killer, murder, tough guy, hitman, female nudity, chinese mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, vancouver, british columbia, hong kong
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, confined, one man army, danger, tough heroes, government agent, american abroad, die hard, heroes, isolation, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
27%
24K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has ...
Style:
serious, exciting, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
security guard, tough guy, shopping mall, brutality, gunfight, tough law enforcer, female warrior, ex soldier, warrior, hand to hand combat, danger, escape attempt ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
27%
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, confined, haunted by the past, one man army, crime boss, revenge, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, mississippi
Similarity:
27%
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