Movies like Citizen

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Citizen (2001)
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Citizen (2001)
Original name: சிட்டிசன்
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Three prominent members of society, a judge, a police official and a district collector are kidnapped in broad daylight by a man who calls himself 'Citizen'. As CBI Officer Sarojini (Nagma) follows his trail she finds clues to a shocking mystery, of a village called Attipatthi which simply disappeared off the map of India, and to which each of these men is connected
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, crying, weeping
Plot: vigilantism, vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty, uncover truth, manhunt, fake identity, investigation, justice, secret, corrupt official, abduction, kidnapping, map, conspiracy, village, revenge, heroes, forest, police, court, excavation, muslim, hospital ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, asia

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Most similar movies to Citizen

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and exciting films with plots about rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, deadly, murder, danger and revenge mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Citizen: Arrambam (2013), Ghajini (2005), Family: Ties of Blood (2006), The Uniform (2004), Shool (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Arrambam (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The film's plot is set in the backdrop of 26/11 serial blasts in Mumbai, and revolves around Ashok Kumar (Ajith), who is on a mission to expose a scam regarding faulty bullet proof jackets that are provided to security forces, which resulted in ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hacker, vengeance, law enforcement, fighting the system, corruption, rivalry, society, rebellion, government, buddy cop, dishonesty, righting the wronged ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, jordan, dubai
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Ghajini (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The film's story is around a rich business entrepreneur falling in love with an ad film actress. The entrepreneur and the actress fall in love, though she does not know that he is an entrepreneur. When she successfully saves a bunch of children ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, memory loss, revenge, tragic event, injustice, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, uncover truth, haunted by the past, danger, fall in love, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
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29%
Family: Ties of Blood (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The story is on the concept of karma and bad deeds. It follows Viren Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), underworld don who rules over India. His son Abhir (Sushant Singh) is spoilt and believes he can do anything due to his father's power. When ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, kidnapping, vengeance, hostage, dishonesty, confined, danger, rivalry, vigilantism, dysfunctional family, chef, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Uniform (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Just as he is preparing for his daughter's wedding, a veteran policeman is assigned to a crack team transporting a Pakistani secret agent to trial.
Style: exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, masala ...
Plot: terrorism, murder, muslim, dishonesty, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, rookie, heroes, small town, small town life ...
Place: asia, mumbai india, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Shool (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Police Inspector Samar Pratap Singh is transferred to Motihari, in the Indian state of Bihar, along with his wife, Manjari and a daughter. He is honest and diligent and these attributes sets him up against his superior - the District Superintendent ...
Style: dark, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police officer, cop, revenge, vigilantism, fighting the system, loss of daughter, profanity, vigilante, injustice, unsupportive coworkers, workplace ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Raavan (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: This thrilling, allegorical drama follows the intricately interwoven lives of three people, delving into concepts of good and evil, and complex emotions. Ragini re-locates to distant Lal Matti along with her Superintendent of Police husband, Dev ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: manhunt, love triangle, police, fall in love, romancing a criminal, vigilantism, twists and turns, haunted by the past, abduction, loss of sister, revenge, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.9
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Zinda (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film is about a man, who has been imprisoned for 14 years, who has been released and has four days to figure out why he was imprisoned in the first place.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, danger, martial arts, imprisonment, rivalry, missing person, captivity, dishonesty, wrongful conviction, rescue, taxi driver, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.6
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Ambition (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Elaan (Hindi: एलान, translation: Manifesto) is a 2005 Bollywood action thriller film. Elaan is a mission film about five characters and their plan against one man. Produced by Ganesh Jain and Ratan Jain and directed by Vikram Bhatt, the film ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting
Plot: vengeance, murder, prison, vigilantism, betrayal, danger, rivalry, chases and races, parents and children, justice, businessman, master villain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, asia, italy, india, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
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Knock Out (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A businessman in a phone-booth is held hostage by a sniper.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: criminal heroes, vigilantism, journalism, dishonesty, extortion, murder, infidelity, telephone call, bomb, cosa nostra, die hard, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.2
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Crosshairs (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hired to enact revenge on a man who savagely beat a beautiful Russian débutant, Jack Verlaine is pressed between his newly acquired job and a persistent man named, Brill, who offers him a chance to advance higher in his seedy career. But when an ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: conspiracy, hitman, assassin, sex trafficking, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, estrangement, prostitution, cover up, deadly, girls with guns
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.8
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Phase IV (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to ...
Style: serious, experimental, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Plot: aids, conspiracy, journalism, uncover truth, gambling, law enforcement, life is a bitch, rivalry, on the run, buddies, dishonesty, good versus evil ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.6
 726
Blackmail (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Inspector Abhay Rathod is a honest and diligent Police Inspector employed with Bombay Police. He was assigned the case of racketeer and criminal don, Shekhar Mohan. Abhay successfully entraps and arrests him, and has him sentenced to a long jail ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: criminal, prison, police, law enforcement, friendship, parents and children, tough heroes, family relations, criminal's revenge, danger, tough law enforcer, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Absolute Deception (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, manhunt, undercover, investigation, special agent, danger, chases and races, law enforcement, dishonesty, couple relations, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, australia, hong kong, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Race (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Ranvir and Rajiv are half brothers who own a huge stud farm in South Africa. Ranvir is a very shrewd and aggressive man while Rajiv is laid back, and a chronic alcoholic. Sophia, Ranvir's personal secretary adores and loves him. Ranvir is ...
Style: realistic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: rivalry, betrayal, love triangle, investigation, family relations, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, dishonesty, siblings relations, murder, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.3
 13K
Masculine (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Meet Shivani Shivaji Roy, Senior Inspector, Crime Branch, Mumbai Police, as she sets out to confront the mastermind behind the child trafficking mafia, which makes the mistake of kidnapping and smuggling a teenage girl who is like a daughter to her. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: one woman army, female police officer, female protagonist, child prostitution, chase, danger, police investigation, law enforcement, rape, sex trafficking, tough girl, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Hindustani (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Senapathy, a veteran freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.
Style: patriotic, political thriller, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: dual role, integration, superhero, independence, hindu, indians, patriotism, investigation, bribery, freedom fighter, society, vengeance ...
Time: 1940s
Place: asia, india, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.3
 10K
If You Knew Me (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot: police, vengeance, police investigation, rivalry, fighting crime, self discovery, law enforcement, uninhibited rivalry, murder, danger, genius, villain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Aan: Men at Work (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Crime is at its highest peak in Mumbai with it split in three ways. Walia has one-third, Manik Rao has one-third and Roshni has a third of the Mumbai territory. The crime rate rises with more smuggling, trading and illegal activities soaring.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: police corruption, gangster, fighting crime, law enforcement, dishonesty, master criminal, tough law enforcer, rivalry, society, love interest, police, fighting the system ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Ghajini (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Sanjay a rich tycoon suffering from short term memory loss due to being hit by a metal pole when trying to intervene on his girlfriend's murder. Because of this his memory can only last for 15 minutes and he doesn't remember events or ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious ...
Plot: memory loss, diary, loss of loved one, revenge, rage, murder, fall in love, vengeance, uncover truth, disorder, haunted by the past, love affair ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: india, asia, mumbai india
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21%
Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, danger, race against time, forced into action, murder, conflict, violent content, tough heroes, chases and races, heroes, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Karma (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 193 min.
Story: When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests Dr. Michael Dang, the leader of the international terrorist group PSO, the group blast the jail Dang is lodged in killing huge numbers of inmates including two of Vishwa's sons and his ...
Style: masala, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, death row, prison, terrorism, false accusation, prison life, disability, vigilantism, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
 22K
Ek Villain (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: When his lover becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, Guru blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, romantic, sad ...
Plot: serial killer, uncover truth, vengeance, fall in love, starting over, twists and turns, rivalry, hunt down, hopes, chases and races, psychopath, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Naan Sigappu Manithan (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Indran suffers from narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that makes him fall asleep at the slightest excitement. He meets Meera and they fall in love but one night, they are attacked by unknown persons. Indran panics and goes into sleep, while Meera is ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: narcolepsy, vengeance, vigilantism, fall in love, rivalry, love and romance, disability, murder, danger, sleep disorder, revenge, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 8.3
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Anniyan (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Ambi, a meek lawyer, ends up being a vigilante named Anniyan, and a supermodel named Remo, after suffering with multiple personality disorder due to the society.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: split personality, vigilante, lawyer, multiple personality disorder, alter ego, mental illness, unrequited love, punishment, vigilantism, anguish, love affair, psychiatrist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.4
 3K
Indian (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 178 min.
Story: DCP Raksekhar Azad (Raj) is an invincible cop with a great aim. He arrests a terrorist by the name of Khan. But Khan lands in a prison cell that looks cushier than the Buckingham Palace. However, this gets Raj promoted, and he is congratulated by ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, vigilantism, one man army, arrest, terrorist, dishonesty, partners against crime, confined, danger, frame up, tough heroes, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Edge of Darkness (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to ...
Style: brutal, tense, suspenseful, exciting, detective ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: vengeance, father daughter relationship, murder, investigation, corruption, uncover truth, fighting the system, riddles and clues, conspiracy, political corruption, violence, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 2.9
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Safehouse (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot: rescue, special agent, law enforcement, intrigue, danger, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance, mafia, revenge, kidnapping, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 4K
Vendetta (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, vigilante, police, vendetta, murder, vigilantism, revenge, rivalry, gang, violence spree, wartime, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 4K
Anger (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Three friends from Delhi go missing in a small village - Jhanjhar, in Bihar. It's 2 months and there is no clue about their disappearance. The media and students movement demand action from the authorities. It's then that the government ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: police corruption, injustice, uncover truth, state affairs, police investigation, political corruption, medieval, partner, society, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new delhi, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
 4K
Naayak (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A young man and his lookalike team up to fight injustice and settle their personal scores with the evildoers.
Style: semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: gangster, mistaken identity, heroes, rivalry, political corruption, dishonesty, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, revenge, cult leader, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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