Movies like Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

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Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except (1985)

5.6

894

Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller, War

Country: USA

Duration: 84 min.

Story: Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker (Brian Schulz), however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg. Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend (Cheryl Hausen) has been kidnapped by a religious cult with a vicious Manson-like leader (Sam Raimi). Stryker teams up with some marine friends to form an assassination squad and annihilate the gang of crazed killers.

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Most similar movies to Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, rough and realistic films with plots about heroes, gunfight, machine gun, danger, gun, fistfight and blood mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except: Behind Enemy Lines (1997), Special Forces (2003), Eastern Condors (1987), The Eliminator (2004), Special Ops (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.

Behind Enemy Lines (1997)

4.2

990

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 89 min.

Story: An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.

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95%

Special Forces (2003)

5.0

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: USA

Duration: 93 min.

Story: When the crazed commander (Eli Danker) of a sadistic army in Moldavia kidnaps an American photojournalist (Daniella Deutscher) and holds her hostage, his misguided actions ignite a targeted response from Maj. Don Harding (Marshall R. Teague) and his ...

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89%

Eastern Condors (1987)

7.1

Genre: Action, Adventure, War

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 98 min.

Story: A motley group of Asian prisoners held in the US are given one chance for freedom. They are to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missles that the US left behind during the pull-out. The group, led by Lt. Lam and convict Tung, hook ...

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85%

The Eliminator (2004)

3.5

542

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 ...

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Special Ops (2010)

3.0

452

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: USA

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 ...

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Guilty as Charged (2000)

4.3

444

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 ...

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69%

Sniper: Reloaded (2011)

5.4

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War

Country: South Africa, USA, Germany

Duration: 91 min.

Story: Brandon Beckett (Collins), the son of the previous Sniper film's star Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger), takes up the mantle set by his father and goes on a mission of his own.

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Missing in Action (1984)

5.4

16K

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War

Country: USA

Duration: 101 min.

Story: American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW ...

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67%

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The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006)

3.8

695

The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 86 min.

Story: The Strike Force team is back in this action-packed sequel to "The Hunt For Eagle One"! Terrorists have stolen a Ground Control Encoder...

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65%

The Human Shield (1991)

4.5

520

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: USA

Duration: 88 min.

Story: The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.

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Behind Enemy Lines (1986)

4.9

684

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War

Country: USA

Duration: 90 min.

Story: Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.

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62%

The Marksman (2005)

4.1

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 95 min.

Story: Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.

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57%

Nam Angels (1989)

4.9

323

Genre: Action, Adventure, War

Country: Philippines

Duration: 91 min.

Story: Lt. Vance Calhoun takes on a dangerous rescue mission of American P.O.W.s in the treacherous Darloc Valley in Vietnam. His only chance to escape is with the help of five young, fearless soldiers on motorcycles.

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53%

Overkill (1996)

4.4

161

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. ...

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51%

Running Red (1999)

4.8

465

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from ...

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51%

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Rambo (2008)

7.0

236K

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: Germany, USA

Duration: 92 min.

Story: When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent ...

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51%

Ballistica (2009)

3.4

448

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 90 min.

Story: A man has been trained in a deadly form of hand-to-hand combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one of the few Americans who has perfected it, which makes him the CIA's best weapon against International Terrorism.

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Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009)

4.8

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 94 min.

Story: Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

6.5

173K

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: USA, Mexico

Duration: 96 min.

Story: John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

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46%

Second in Command (2006)

4.9

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: UK, Romania

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the ...

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45%

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Tunnel Rats (2008)

4.7

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Canada, Germany

Duration: 96 min.

Story: During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.

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Sniper: Legacy (2014)

5.3

Genre: Action, Thriller, War

Country: USA, Bulgaria

Duration: 95 min.

Story: A rogue gunman is assassinating high-ranking military officers one by one. When Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Beckett is informed his father, legendary shooter Thomas Beckett has been killed, Brandon springs into action to take out the perpetrator. But when ...

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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)

4.8

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 ...

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Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990)

4.9

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 111 min.

Story: When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.

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Act of Valor (2012)

6.4

70K

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War

Country: USA

Duration: 110 min.

Story: When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hotspots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a deadly terrorist attack.

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The Dirty Dozen (1967)

7.7

75K

Genre: Action, Adventure, War

Country: UK, USA

Duration: 150 min.

Story: 12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the ...

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40%

Strike Commando (1987)

5.1

Genre: Action, Adventure, War

Country: Italy, Philippines

Duration: 104 min.

Story: While operating behind enemy lines, Sgt. Mike Ransom learns of a Russian presence in North Vietnam. Ordered to obtain proof of this discovery, Ransom returns to enemy territory but is captured and subjected to a variety of tortures. Eventually he ...

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40%

The Hard Corps (2006)

5.2

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.

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39%

Hamburger Hill (1987)

6.7

26K

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War

Country: USA

Duration: 110 min.

Story: The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their ...