Movies like The Stranger 2010
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The Stranger (2010)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pro wrestling legend Steve Austin stars as a man with no name, no memory and absolutely nothing left to lose. But when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob, this amnesiac decides to fight back. Pursuit cannot stop him. Torture will not break him. And with every beating, bullet and betrayal, he’ll remember another piece of the horror that took away his career, his family and his identity. Now the puzzle is nearly complete, and one man is about to take back his past…by ending a whole lot of futures. Erica Cerra (“Eureka”) and Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers) star in this explosive action-thriller about collateral damage, stone cold vengeance, and a double-crossed killing machine known only as The Stranger
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, psychological thriller, dutch angle, f word
Audience:
adult
Plot:
one man army, tough guy, investigation, law enforcement, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty, violence, brutality, chase, murder of family, one against many, fistfight, hand to hand combat, wrestler, wrestling, torture, muscleman, memory loss, chases and races, rivalry, police officer, heroes, police, warrior ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, british columbia, seattle, oregon, seattle washington
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Most similar movies to The Stranger
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about gun, pistol, martial arts, fistfight, brawl, tough guy and gunfight mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Stranger: Moving Target (1996), Damage (2009), 4.3.2.1. (2010), Tactical Force (2011), The Package (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A bounty hunter with a pregnant wife who is urging him to get a regular job gets framed for murder and trapped in a war between Russian gangsters.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, intense, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial artist, hand to hand combat, chase, heroes, murder, gangster, chases and races, on the run, dishonesty, fugitives, criminal's revenge, master warrior ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
martial arts, fight, contests and competitions, danger, rivalry, fall in love, ambition, underground tournament, wrestler, tough guy, violence, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but ...
Style:
sexy, serious, exciting, clever, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lesbian, friends, diamonds, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, disorder, heist, virginity, teenager, criminal gang, lesbian relationship, robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, new york, london, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
Style:
realistic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
swat team, female warrior, rivalry, confined, gang, tough law enforcer, danger, law enforcement, swat, tough heroes, mission gone awry, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, british columbia, los angeles
Similarity:
32%
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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:
25%
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:
25%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge plot, state affairs, danger, assassination, terrorism, political conspiracy, political corruption, military, government agency, dishonesty, race against time, political intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, cuba, washington d.c., middle east
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, military, military base, soldier, gang, rivalry, undercover, military life, secret agent, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcée mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
daughter, profanity, fugitives, tough heroes, survival, danger, hostage, father daughter relationship, forest, border patrol, martial arts, computer cracker ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas, montana, canada, reno nevada
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, one man army, tough heroes, save the day, on the run, hostage, undercover, danger, train, one against many, gunfight, die hard ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
24%
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:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officer, Lt. Paul Cutler, is sent to train the Detroit S.W.A.T. team on new anti-terrorism and homeland security techniques. Cutler has a hard time settling into his assignment as he locks horns with his new captain and ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, saga, action thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
ambush, hitman, criminal's revenge, swat team, swat, fighting crime, law enforcement, daring rescue, rivalry, basic training, gunfight, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, detroit
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Former government Jason Price (Dolph Lundgren) makes people disappear for a living. But when a top lieutenant for a crime syndicate asks Price to help him drop out of sight, things take a grisly, unexpected turn. A mysterious hit man known as The ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, lone wolves, special agent, uncover truth, government agency, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, conspiracy, car bomb, one against many, espionage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, pittsburgh
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, martial arts, politics, on the run, heroes, assassination, murder, conspiracy, manhunt, undercover, protagonist as suspect, espionage ...
Place:
british columbia, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered ...
Style:
realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, tough guy, conspiracy, heroes, one man army, dishonesty, state affairs, political conspiracy, false accusation, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
22%
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, exciting, cult classic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
martial arts, vigilante, revenge, chase, vigilantism, vengeance, working undercover, danger, partner, fighting crime, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california, hong kong
Similarity:
22%
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, exciting, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, gang, chase, investigation, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, vengeance, gang, death of wife, tough heroes, rivalry, murder, gangster, organized crime, violence, good versus evil ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2011, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south america, british columbia, usa
Similarity:
22%
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179
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
American Police officer Jack Hazard heads for South America after being ordered to take time off by his boss after a raid goes bad. Once there, however, he finds himself caught up with a stranger wanted by the government, and soon ends up in prison. ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
jungle, martial arts, heroes, on the run, violent content, profanity, psychopath, undercover, chases and races, law enforcement, stalking, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latin america, south america
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, investigation, car, murder, mind game, special agent, race against time, law enforcement, rivalry, martial arts, vigilante, chases and races ...
Place:
memphis, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Walker investigates a murder connected with a missing government weapon. In addition, he tries to track down a teen on the run from a crime syndicate.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, police detective, undercover, partners against crime, tough heroes, rivalry, police investigation, law enforcement, danger, brutality, karate, cowboy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After serving 6 years for a crime he didn't commit, Shane Daniels is released from jail with an apology from the State of Arizona. Within hours of his freedom, he unluckily bears witness to a cop killing by Chinese mafia who have a kidnapped ...
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
profanity, wrongful conviction, danger, confined, rivalry, police officer killed, save the day, assassination attempt, false accusation, chase, corrupt cop, crooked cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In lawless storm ravaged New Orleans, eleaguered Detective Sean Riley is trying to cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment of his wife. Facing a probable suspension from the department, Riley is teamed with a young homicide ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
partner, undercover, gunfight, police investigation, serial murder, danger, dishonesty, tough cop, death of son, revenge, brutality, espionage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, unstoppable, antidote, on the run, investigation, law enforcement, working undercover, danger, dishonesty, manhunt, master criminal, undercover ...
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Wellman Santee (Dolph Lundgren) a former race car driver, whose livelihood is transporting exotic stolen super cars, is involved, with his partner Eddie, in shoot out, resulting in the deaths of his friend and a highway cop. Santee is framed for the ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, desert, car chase, one against many, hostage, chase, on the run, fugitives, organized crime, blood, female nudity, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A former Russian mobster named Ruslan, who is now a crime novelist, returns home and discovers his daughter is marrying his arch nemesis. His past also comes back to haunt him when his family is threatened. Hungry for justice, Ruslan returns to the ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, exciting, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, haunted by the past, rivalry, vigilantism, danger, family relations, revenge, save the day, getting home, going straight, aikido ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Revolves around a British military contractor Lex Walker who is told his daughter has died. When he arrives in Los Angeles and discovers the body is not hers, he begins an investigation.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, missing person, martial arts, gunfight, mercenary, kidnapping, parent child relationship, vigilantism, family relations, parents and children, confined, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Philippines
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When an American soldier’s Black Ops Unit is ambushed during a raid to rescue a nano-nuclear device that has fallen into the wrong hands, he must run for his life to not only track down the missing device, but also clear his name when he is ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, terrorism, betrayal, one man army, danger, heroic mission, daring rescue, rivalry, military, race against time, escapades, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Frank Gannon, a veteran cop, is being hunted by his fellow police officers after they learned he has betrayed the brotherhood and exposed to the feds wide scale corruption of the LAPD. He has one day left to prove his case and survive.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police detective, partner, tough law enforcer, rivalry, fighting the system, law enforcement, workplace, dishonesty, uncover truth, workplace situations, one man army ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
20%
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