Movies like The Man Who Stole the Sun

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The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
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The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
Original name: 太陽を盗んだ男
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A high-school teacher (Kenji Sawada) builds an atomic bomb to hold Tokyo hostage, then cannot decide what he wants.
Style: philosophical, exciting, tense, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
Plot: terrorism, mental disorder, technology, professor, atomic bomb, plutonium, sexploitation, high school teacher, car chase, satire, nuclear threat, dark humor, radiation, teachers and students, laboratory, chases and races, law enforcement, urban, unlikely criminals, police officer, cat, teacher, police, hostage, hijacking ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia

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Most similar movies to The Man Who Stole the Sun

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and exciting films with plots about law enforcement, danger, chases and races, police, rivalry, heroes and violent content mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Man Who Stole the Sun: Big Bullet (1996), The Bullet Train (1975), Detective Doberman (1977), Nighthawks (1981), Rapid Fire (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Big Bullet (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Hotheaded cop Bill Zhu (Lau Ching-wan) gets relegated to the Emergency Unit after a dustup with his inept boss. When the mob kills Zhu's pal and ex-colleague (Francis Ng) during a turf-war hit, he rounds up his motley department cohorts and ...
Style: heroic, crime drama, bloody, neo noir, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, swat team, heist, police, violent content, law enforcement, workplace, chases and races, danger, escapades, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, hong kong, united kingdom, china, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Bullet Train (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story: One of the Japanese Shinkansen “Bullet Trains” is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb.
Style: action thriller, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, terrorism, railway, runaway train, disaster, subway, stranger on a train, die hard, speed, race against time, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: tokyo, japan, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Detective Doberman (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The burned remains of a young woman discovered in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The police comes to the conclusion that its the work of a pyromaniacal serial murderer. The murder victim is identified as Mayumi Tamaki, a native of Ishigaki, Okinawa. As the ...
Style: crime drama, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, martial arts, tough guy, cop, murder, gangster, rescue, urban, danger, fish out of water, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, grim, tense, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: heist, subway, train, murder, runaway train, hostage, gangster, terrorism, railway, cop, mayor, criminal ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Nighthawks (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, harsh, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, chase, police officer, master criminal, danger, stewardess, working undercover, fighting crime, murder, police, explosions, violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, paris france, manhattan new york city, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.1
 405
Rapid Fire (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A desperate band of Militia men attempts a daylight bank robbery in the sleepy semi-rural City of Norco, California, and leads the local Police on the longest, most violent running gun battle in Law Enforcement history. Based on the true events.
Style: tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: crime gone awry, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, bank, danger, swat, suburbs, car chase, chases and races, disorder, battles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Harrigan (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Amongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes embroiled into saving what community life exists.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: fighting crime, law enforcement, estate, gang, detective sergeant, danger, murder, tough law enforcer, chases and races, motorcycle chase, car chase, sergeant
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Street Mobster (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Japanese yakuza films certainly have a well-earned reputation of being violent and chaotic. Some are more frenetic than others and Street Mobster is unbelievable high on savagery and energy. It dawned the re-birth of the genre, telling the story ...
Style: bloody, exciting, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, female nudity, murder, prison, rape, japanese mafia, asian gangster, organized crime, mafia, sex, japanese man ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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At Point Blank (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal detective Klara and the SWAT commander Greger Krona, who together lead the hunt for the robbers. Their ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: bank robbery, investigation, mistaken identity, workplace situations, hostage, swat, crime gone awry, law enforcement, love triangle, couple relations, dishonesty, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 437
Hijack (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, terrorism, hijacking, chases and races, danger, heroes, confined, law enforcement, race against time, save the day, die hard, terrorist plot ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Double Identity (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, on the run, danger, save the lady, daring rescue, mistaken identity, heroes, woman in danger, spy, police officer, hustler, hitman ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, bulgaria, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.8
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Mission Park (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Four friends from the rough side of town grow apart when two are consumed by a life of crime, and the other two become FBI agents sent deep undercover - to bring down those childhood friends.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working undercover, special agent, drug dealing, police officer, undercover, ambition, danger, friendship, gang, law enforcement, urban, right hand man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Baby (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: An elite counter-intelligence unit learns of a plot, masterminded by a maniacal madman. With the clock ticking, it's up to them to track the terrorists' international tentacles and prevent them from striking at the heart of India.
Style: exciting, serious, patriotic, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, fighting crime, law enforcement, danger, tough heroes, violent content, spy, terrorist plot, behind enemy lines, war on terror, graphic violence ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
52%
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two lovers, Mary and Larry, in their Dodge Charger are chased by the police after robbing a grocery store.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, on the run, chase, robbery, mechanic, carsploitation, car, police, exploitation, partner, reckless driving, mind game ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Vehicle 19 (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A parolee (Paul Walker) becomes the target of a massive police manhunt after inadvertently picking up a rental car with a female whistleblower tied up in the trunk. Now, as the police attempt to silence the woman before she can testify about the ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, road movie ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: police corruption, hostage, car chase, mistaken identity, on the run, woman in danger, dirty cop, dishonesty, law enforcement, pursuit, racing, car ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 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 ⇓
50%
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S.W.A.T.: Firefight (2011)
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, rough, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, swat team, swat, fighting crime, law enforcement, daring rescue, rivalry, basic training, ambush, gunfight, criminal's revenge, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Death Train (2003)
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, train, on the run, save the day, hostage, danger, undercover, gunfight, die hard, hijacking, railway, subway ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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 ⇓
47%
 6.3
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Golgo 13 (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His main obstacle is the relentless Detective ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, martial arts, yakuza, assassination, superhero, killer, triad, female assassin, assassin, sniper, karate, drug cartel ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: asia, tokyo, kyoto japan, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Johan Falk: Kodnamn Lisa (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Five men break into Frank Wagner's apartment. Frank is able to escape and seeks out the help of Johan Falk. Has someone leaked that Frank is working with the police? Frank and John do not know who knows what and who they can trust.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: police, organized crime, working undercover, undercover, danger, mafia, gang, law enforcement, informant, double life, nordic, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Johan Falk: National Target (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Frank Wagner goes deeper undercover to infiltrate Europe's most dangerous Mafia, the Russian-est, consisting of ex - KGB officers.
Style: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: police, police detective, drug dealing, danger, rivalry, organized crime, pursuit, nordic, drug traffic, criminal, swedish, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping.
Style: rough, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Plot: police investigation, tough law enforcer, danger, law enforcement, chase, gangster, police procedural, organized crime, nordic, swedish, criminal, urban ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Zero Tolerance (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: police officer, chase, murder, nordic, shootout, swedish, european, police, revenge, witness, robbery, threat ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Final Approach (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nightmare: stuck aboard a plane that's been taken over by a group of well-armed terrorists who ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, terrorism, rescue, daring rescue, master criminal, save the day, tough heroes, danger, heroes, one man army, aviation, air disaster ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Black Gunn (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their ...
Style: independent film, neo noir, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, organized crime, black, gangster, racism, nightclub, injustice, chase, gang, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Don 2: The Chase Continues (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India, Germany
Duration: 148 min.
Story: In 2006, with the ever looming dangers of the underworld in Malaysia, Don broke the morale of his associates by infiltrating the gang with an alias and taking advantage of the enmity of Singhania & Vardhaan. He rose to become the undisputed King ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: heist, policewoman, chase, law enforcement, heroes, master criminal, confined, danger, interpol, tough heroes, slick, escapades ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: europe, asia, india, malaysia, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Mission to Tokyo (1966)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: US 24, an American Navy base in a small island in the Pacific, is annihilated. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a French aristocrat that is also a secret agent, OSS 117, is sent to Tokyo to investigate who did it. Soon, he finds out that a cypher girl ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, secret agent, cold war, special agent, battles, estrangement, couple relations, danger, chases and races, terrorism, state affairs, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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