Movies like A Hard Day

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A Hard Day (2014)
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A Hard Day (2014)
Original name: 끝까지 간다
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that he saw the detective’s hit-and-run, but instead of asking for money, he wants to know about the body’s whereabouts, leading to a do-or-die showdown of the witness and detective.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, exciting, serious, dark comedy, psychological thriller, noir, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, twists and turns, police, gunfight, vengeance, funeral, life turned upside down, murder mystery, police corruption, blackmail, police inspector, police detective, political corruption, hit and run, violence, investigation, organized crime, asian, fight club, judiciary, anti hero, dead mother, law enforcement, disorder, violent content ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: south korea, asia, korea, tokyo
Keyword: korean, gangsters

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Most similar movies to A Hard Day

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about murder, gangster, organized crime, police, investigation, rivalry and violence mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like A Hard Day: Cold Eyes (2013), The Chaser (2008), No Mercy (2010), Running Wild (2006), Johan Falk 5 (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cold Eyes (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: HA Yoon-ju becomes the newest member to a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high profile criminals. She teams up with HWANG Sang-Jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, police investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, partner, law enforcement, heist, gang, surveillance, police, bank robbery, hunt down ...
Time: 21st century
Place: east asia, south korea, asia, korea
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 7.8
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The Chaser (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, investigation, race against time, revenge, anti hero, police detective, murder, brutality, missing person, violent ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.4
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No Mercy (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Forensic pathologist Kang (Seol Kyeong-gu) is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min (Han Hye-jin) points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho (Ryoo Seung-beom), as the primary suspect. But when ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, murder, police investigation, autopsy, forensics, tragic hero, daughter, arrest, regret, threat, vengeance, professor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 863
Running Wild (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A grissled cop with tendencies towards excessive force teams up with an ambitious and righteous prosecutor to track down a dangerous crime boss whom they both want desperately to catch. But their quarry resorts to devious methods to stall their ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: investigation, murder, gangster, partners against crime, vigilantism, against the rules, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, legal, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, seoul, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Johan Falk 5 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: police, murder, trafficking, law enforcement, danger, tough law enforcer, nordic, graphic violence, swedish, urban, violent content, hotel room ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Memoir of a Murderer (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A former serial killer Byung-su gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and when a series of murders occur near his town, he worries whether the killings are his doings. Then, he comes across Tae-ju and realizes that he’s the killer. He reports this to ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, twisted ...
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, serendipity, father daughter relationship, police, alzheimer's disease, doubt, vigilante, confusion, murder, daughter, tunnel ...
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100%
Confession of Murder (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: On the day the 15-year statute of limitations expired on a high profile serial murder case that claimed the lives of 10 women, a family member of the victim throws himself off the building in front of Choi Hyeong-goo, the detective in charge of the ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, detective, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, vengeance, law enforcement, chases and races, dark humor, revenge, killer, plot twist, asian, frame up, trap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: east asia, asia, korea, south korea
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37%
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New World (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story: An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang war, mole, gang leader, moral dilemma, criminal gang, mafia, organized crime, undercover cop, police, betrayal, mind game ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Believer (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A detective goes undercover in a drug ring and allies with a member of the drug ring in order to take it down.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: master villain, drug dealer, mysterious past, impersonation, fighting crime, gang leader, investigation, danger, showdown, rivalry, murder, die ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A 5 member gang, led by Seok-Tae (Kim Yun-Seok), kidnaps a baby boy named Hwa-Yi and raises the baby like their own son. The baby boy is now 17 years old (Yeo Jin-Goo) and has turned into a lethal killer. Taking part in his father's gang, ...
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, asian, criminal, deception, teenage boy, chase, investigation, murder, boy, parents and children, hitman, gunfight ...
Place: east asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
 6.1
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Howling (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A man is found burned to death inside of a car. Detective Sang-Gil (Song Kang-Ho) and his co-workers investigate the scene. Sang-Gil doesn't want to take the case, because it looks like a simple suicide case and won't help him get the ...
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, partner, danger, werewolf, promotion, law enforcement, vengeance, organized crime, wolf, supernatural, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Restless (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, perverse ...
Plot: investigation, police officer, criminal, police, police corruption, corrupt cop, accident, corrupt law enforcer, blackmail, hidden truth, police inspector, corrupted ruler ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Asura: The City of Madness (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor, in this scintillating crime drama from Korean maestro Kim Sung-soo (The Warrior).
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: corruption, mayor, police corruption, gangster, criminal, crime boss, government corruption, bandit, political corruption, corrupt official, police detective, corrupt politician ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.8
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I Saw the Devil (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, dark, tense ...
Audience: date night, manly, adult
Plot: serial killer, revenge, vengeance, murder, psychopath, violence, macabre, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, brutality, torture ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In Cheonan, a serial murder case takes place, but the case becomes more and more of a mystery. Only Tae-suk, a cop, immediately senses that all the cases are by the same killer and starts investigation. One day, Dong-soo, a gang boss, got attacked ...
Style: suspense, twisted, factual, tense, crime thriller ...
Plot: gang, serial killer, murder mystery, mafia, gangster, police, revenge, investigation, forensics, street gang, murderer, murder investigation ...
Time: year 2005
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Mea Culpa (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family ...
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, partner, vigilantism, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, violent content, life turned upside down, car accident, murder, chase, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Perfect Number (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the series by the popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, this is a mystery drama that 'faithfully but freely' adapts the 3rd part in the series, . The story revolves around 3 characters: a woman who unwittingly killed her ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot: murder, hidden truth, investigation, under the surface, moral dilemma, teacher, plot twist, death, friendship, perfect crime, twists and turns, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
 542
Black Ransom (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A powerful triad boss has been kidnapped, and the new police superintendent Koo (Fala Chen) decides to recruit the help of Mann (Simon Yam), a former supercop who has since been relegated to back-up duty. Mann has his work cut out for him when he ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, police investigation, law enforcement, danger, rivalry, confined, vengeance, murder, blackmail, hostage, police brutality, abduction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Infernal Affairs II (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.
Style: suspense, neo noir, tense, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chinese mafia, gangster, triad, organized crime, spy, murder, police, police investigation, survival, recruit, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1991, year 1997 ...
Place: hong kong, asia, china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Johan Falk: Slutet (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's ...
Style: psychological, tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, mafia, criminal underworld, murder, torture, police officer killed, organized crime, police procedural, nordic, gangster, gunfight, crime family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A corrupted customs officer, Choi Ik-hyeon, faces losing his job. Then, his life turns around as he meets ganster Choi Hyeong-bae who has connection with the Yakuza. They quickly form a partnetship; Hyeong-bae helps Ik-hyeon set up a business with ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: organized crime, gangster, rise and fall, police, mafia, rise to the top, ambition, gang war, unlikely criminals, betrayal, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: south korea, busan, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada, India
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Style: tense, exciting, stylized, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master criminal, organized crime, investigation, police corruption, anti hero, criminal, moral ambiguity, justice, betrayal, police detective, law enforcement, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Ransom (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, reward, child in peril, police corruption, millionaire, child abduction, rescue, ransom, kidnapped, danger, forced into action ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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A Bittersweet Life (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on ...
Style: suspense, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: hitman, gunfight, asian gangster, organized crime, revenge, vengeance, mafia, betrayal, gangster, fall in love, brutality, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Man from Nowhere (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named ...
Style: serious, tense, brutal, exciting, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, one man army, martial arts, kidnapping, lone hero, assassin, master warrior, organized crime, drug lord, fight scenes, gang, fight ...
Time: year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, east asia, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
 105K
Cellular (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, sexy, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, race against time, cell phone, secrets, home invasion, police corruption, lone hero, runaway, kidnapped, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 8.0
 16K
Pokiri (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 164 min.
Story: Pandu (Mahesh Babu) is a ruthless mafia man who kills anybody for money. He falls in love with Sruthi (Ileana) at the very first sight. Sruthi too loves Pandu, but hesitates to confess her love to him as he is a reckless criminal. Though a goon, ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, twist ending ...
Plot: one against many, revenge, gangster, obsession, organized crime, violence, death of father, chase, fall in love, love, criminal, police officer killed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Betrayals & Bullets: The Dame (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 51 min.
Story: After the murder of his girlfriend, a gang enforcer sets out to find out who perpetrated the killing.
Style: neo noir, suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, betrayal, respect, revenge, society, death, police investigation, name calling, gang war, violence, police detective, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.8
 120K
Street Kings (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, detective, hood, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, dirty cop, police, corruption, gunfight, violence, police investigation, ghetto, twists and turns, gangster, cop, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.0
 4K
Inside Men (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: LEE Kang-hee, an editorialist of the influential conservative newspaper puts a congressman, JANG Pil-woo to the position of a leading candidate for President using the power of the press. Behind this, there was his secret deal with the paper’s ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: politics, conspiracy, revenge, government, gang, rivalry, danger, evidence, mind game, blackmail, law enforcement, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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