Movies like On the Edge 2002

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On the Edge (2002)
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On the Edge (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Dakota Smith is an ex-cop and former private eye with a proclivity for community service. When a young basketball player entangles himself with drug dealers, he turns to Dak for help. Eventually goons are sent to kill the hoopster, but they hit the family of Rex Stevens by mistake. Frustrated by the incompetent and crooked police, the trio of Smith, Stevens, and their friend Frank Harris then battle the drug dealers for control of the streets. Also the heroes must tangle with Felix, a stealthy and ruthless hitman.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, exciting, neo noir
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, vigilantism, tough heroes, vengeance, rivalry, drug dealing, law enforcement, partners against crime, urban ghetto, drug dealer, black, crime fighter, heroes, friends, partner, buddies, violent content, basketball, rape, female nudity, hostage, sex scene, murder, gunfight, african american ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, deadly, heroes, murder, law enforcement, danger and vengeance mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like On the Edge: Jump Out Boys (2008), Bulletproof (1987), Hawk's Vengeance (1996), Crooked (2006), Border Lost (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Jump Out Boys (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Set in post hurricane New Orleans. A brutal Mexican drug lord (Armando LeDuc) busts out of jail to retrieve the $15 million that his girlfriend is hiding. But detective Raymond (Kris Kristofferson) and McCoy (Sheldon Robbins) will try their best to ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, hitman, chaos, law enforcement, manhunt, danger, vengeance, drug dealing, drug dealer, police shootout, gang violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
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95%
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Bulletproof (1987)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, kidnapping, terrorist plot, danger, daring rescue, heroes, one man army, love interest, terrorist, rescue, tough heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Hawk's Vengeance (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Eric Hawke a British Marine, attends the funeral of his policeman brother who he discovers has been attempting to investigate the mysterious kidnappings and murders of a local Asian street gang. The clues seem to point to a rival Nazi white ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, martial arts, murder, vigilantism, hitman, marine, canuxploitation, violent content, gangster, gang, chases and races, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 3.5
 492
Crooked (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two police detectives must protect a beautiful call girl from mob hitmen and a crooked cop.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, murder, woman in danger, witnessing a crime, police investigation, danger, partner, chases and races, martial arts, mafia, gunfight, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Border Lost (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these defenseless groups. An elite task force is put together with high expectations of solving this problem that ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, illegal immigration, partner, danger, escapades, government agency, heroes, desert, daring rescue, immigrant, immigration, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Hit Team (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An undercover cop badly injured in a raid is blamed for the raid's failure and thrown out of the police department. His injuries result in his being paralyzed form the waist down, and doctors tell him that if he doesn't have an operation ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vengeance, fighting crime, gang, partners against crime, danger, rivalry, disability, partner, law enforcement, undercover, paralysis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
American Muscle (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: John Falcon did 10 years of hard time in prison. Now he's got 24 hours to get revenge on every person who had a hand in sending him there.
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, violence spree, rivalry, tough heroes, delusion, revenge, hate, tattooed woman, nudity, violent content, man hits a woman, stripper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Quiet Cool (1986)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New ...
Style: independent film, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, revenge, one man army, tough guy, drug lord, tough cop, small town, forest, culture clash, rage, strong violent content, partners against crime ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: california, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 430
No Tomorrow (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When the world's most notorious criminal allies himself with a senior employee of a major shipping corporation, a lethal deal is struck to secure a multi-million dollar arms transaction. As word of the sinister deal spreads through the ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: rivalry, gangster, hip hop, injustice, criminal heroes, law enforcement, urban ghetto life, martial arts, arms deal, arms dealer, hip hop culture, black ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 532
Vigilante (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Luke is viciously attacked and his fiancée is raped and murdered, he pledges to train himself in deadly hand to hand combat and use it against any wrong doers who dare to cross his path.
Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: martial arts, murder, vengeance, rivalry, assassination, vigilantism, dishonesty, good versus evil, police corruption, frame up, violence, vigilante ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
One Down, Two to go (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, black, gangster, kung fu, partner, gang, criminal's revenge, contests and competitions, good versus evil, rivalry, society ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 678
Mafia (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, vengeance, tough heroes, criminal heroes, murder, police officer, love, drug dealer, graphic violence, black, profanity ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Shootfighter II (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroes, female fight, boxer, working undercover, ambition, danger, contests and competitions, law enforcement, master warrior, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Road of No Return (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, undercover, danger, introspection, race against time, politics, law enforcement, anti hero, heroes, rivalry, orphan, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Cherry Bomb (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An homage to the action films of the early 1980s, Cherry Bomb follows a young dancer and her quest for revenge against the group of men that brutally assaulted her. Seeing no justice coming from within the system Cherry enlists the help of her ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: gang rape, revenge, rape, police corruption, betrayal, murder, woman in danger, siblings relations, rivalry, dishonesty, strong female presence, rape victim ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Assassin's Game (2015)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Legendary hitman Vet Jones never expected to accept another mission. But when his son fails to assassinate an important target, and a powerful crime boss gives Jones an ultimatum - finish the job or his son dies - Jones has no choice but to accept. ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sniper, hitman, parents and children, family relations, disorder, violent content, martial arts, master warrior, danger, heroes, tough heroes, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Plot: rivalry, partner, vengeance, police detective, police investigation, gang, partners against crime, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug dealing, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Steel Sharks (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Submarine crews wage a silent war beneath the waves in this undersea thriller.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, die hard, battles, underwater, confined, danger, daring rescue, military, rivalry, rescue, escapades, terrorism ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Street Corner Justice (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Pittsburgh cop Mike Justus is kicked off the force and moves away to relax in sunny Los Angeles. Unfortunately his dream retirement turns out to be a nightmare and he is forced to deal out his own brand of street corner justice.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, violent content, religions or cults, battles, injustice, tough law enforcer, hotshot hero, good versus evil, life is a bitch, criminal's revenge, lone wolves, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Sacrifice (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister in his care.
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, law enforcement, police detective, danger, hopes, confined, tough heroes, cop, religion, child in peril, profanity, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba
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55%
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Body Armour (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: assassin, hitman, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, murder, gunfight, violent content, vengeance, heroes, profanity, shootout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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54%
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Hard Justice (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams (David Bradley) goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike (Charles Napier) and his pet goons are involved in all kinds of corrupt activities; dope dealing and gun ...
Style: bloody, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, martial arts, prison, government agent, corruption, undercover agent, karate, convict, gunfight, fistfight, special agent, partner ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 100
Consignment (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, gangster, on the run, going straight, police investigation, starting over, gang, hitman, criminal's revenge, rivalry, buddies, law enforcement ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Submerged (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, heroic mission, race against time, daring rescue, heroes, rivalry, gang, confined, save the day, escapades, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Outside the Law (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Secret agent Julie Cosgrove is walking into her most dangerous mission yet.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, secret agent, undercover, vengeance, danger, working undercover, hitman, starting over, government agency, heroes, murder, spy ...
Place: usa, colombia, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Without Mercy (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: He' s been betrayed by his country, stripped of his honor and exiled to a foreign land. Now maverick Marine officer Frank Zagarino has found a way to get back what was stolen from him. And he'll get it-no matter what it takes.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: martial arts, ex marine, torture, tough heroes, betrayal, vigilantism, hotshot hero, heroes, fall in love, dishonesty, law enforcement, innocence lost ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, vietnam, africa
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51%
Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, rivalry, terrorism, heroic mission, confined, chases and races, escapades, heroes, danger, hijacking, bomb, boat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Doing Hard Time (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, murder, criminal heroes, vengeance, vigilantism, prison life, confined, redemption, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Raven (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Martin Grant has been hiding for years to escape his past as a ruthless mercenary in the elite force Raven Team. He's recently been engaged and are trying to forget the nightmares of murder and betrayal. Martin was convinced, that he could ...
Style: suspense, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, murder, working undercover, political conspiracy, criminal's revenge, rivalry, manhunt, vigilantism, soldier, heroes, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 3.3
 775
The Purifiers (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fighting crime, gang, vengeance, rivalry, tough heroes, vigilantism, society, gangster, danger, murder, heroes ...
Time: future
Place: england, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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