Movies like A Dangerous Place
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A Dangerous Place (1994)
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Ethan's older brother Greg is found dead, the police rule the case a suicide, but Ethan suspects foul play stemming from Greg's recent involvement with a martial arts team called the Scorpions. Ethan is also accomplished at martial arts, and he determines to join the Scorpions as a means of learning what really happened to Greg. - Written by Michelle Sturges
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, karate, dojo, gang, youth, high school, murder, teachers and students, graphic violence, life is a bitch, high school life, teenage life, vengeance, rivalry, society, juvenile delinquency, assassination, amateur detective, performer's life, domestic disturbance, uncover truth, riddles and clues, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Most similar movies to A Dangerous Place
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, rough and realistic films with plots about rivalry, martial arts, deadly, danger, murder, vengeance and heroes mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like A Dangerous Place: The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998), Raw Target (1995), Bloodmatch (1991), Bloodmoon (1997), Motorpsycho! (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams). An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary. Karl signs on as a new substitute teacher in ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, gangsters, high school, vigilante, murder, teacher, society, undercover, amateur detective, vengeance, hardcase students, youth ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, vietnam, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This high-powered action flick follows kickboxing champion Johnny Rider, who quits the ring after accidentally killing an opponent but is forced to employ his skills again to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of crime boss Rod Sparks ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, murder, fight, kickboxing, competition, heroes, master warrior, law enforcement, rivalry, gang, vengeance, down on your luck ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the ...
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exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, female fighter, fight, revenge, intergender wrestling, female fight, kickboxing, kung fu, righting the wronged, heroic mission, frame up, murder ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
848
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ken O'Hara (Gary Daniels) is a "Mindhunter" - a serial killer specialist enlisted to find the mass murderer (Darren Shahlavi) intent on killing the strongest fighters in New York City. Trying to catch this cunning and clever killer is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, serial killer, fight, terrorism, motorcycle, murder investigation, hacker, performer's life, strong violent content, law enforcement, police investigation, partners ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Three bad boy motorcyclists get kicks raping other people's women and generally being a nuisance. When they rape a veterinarian's wife, he takes exception and pursues them, teaming up with a Cajun woman whose husband they killed. The ...
Style:
campy, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
biker, motorcycle, rape, revenge, vietnam war, redneck, misfit, freak, terror, criminal, juvenile delinquent, martial arts ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
vietnam, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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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, exciting
Plot:
rivalry, hip hop, gangsters, injustice, martial arts, criminal heroes, law enforcement, urban ghetto life, arms deal, arms dealer, hip hop culture, african american ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
263
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!
Style:
rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, hitman, vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, nude, couples, clergy, hotel, infidelity, woman in danger, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is learning karate from Lee, a sensei whose brother was killed by a rookie cop named Billy. Billy has ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kickboxer, good versus evil, rivalry, youth, contests and competitions, police detective, teenage life, school, bully comeuppance, final showdown, grownups ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style:
realistic, tense, rough, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, psychopath, ex cop, investigation, femme fatale, rivalry, police detective, serial killer, police, revenge, police officer, chase ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
It's an action-packed thriller that borders on horror centered around the effects of the opioid Oxycontin.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, bleak, disturbing
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, life is a bitch, society, addiction, drug abuse, urban ghetto life, suspense, gang, urban ghetto, siblings relations, graphic violence, karate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, criminal heroes, disorder, gangsters, law enforcement, good versus evil, crime gone awry, rivalry, bank, murder, money laundering, mexican standoff ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A martial arts expert who runs a dojo for under-privileged kids from a dilapidated warehouse is shaken down by gangsters demanding protection money. Then when one of his students is gunned down in the street by the gang, he swears revenge. Meanwhile ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, fighter, competition, dojo, fight, murder, good versus evil, uninhibited rivalry, criminal's revenge, ambition, rivalry, master criminal ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
526
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mandrill (M. Zaror) is a high-level assassin whose parents many years ago were slaughtered in cold blood by a ruthless drug lord. Now he finds himself finally in a position to get his revenge. But since it falls in love precisely in the pretty ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, hitman, vengeance, escapades, rivalry, fall in love, suspense, spy, seductive man, seductive behavior, seduction, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, state affairs, assassination, political corruption, political conspiracy, dishonesty, government agency, race against time, military, political intrigue, conspiracy, one against many ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Johnny Sun is a Mexican American with a white mother and Mexican dad. He witnesses his parents murder and gets his revenge years later, leading to a hard life as a gangster in drugs and smuggling. He tries to keep his borther from the life and finds ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, rivalry, gang, family relations, society, urban ghetto, going straight, murder, revenge, smuggling, brother brother relationship, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
assassin, hitman, rivalry, vigilantism, gunfight, murder, suspense, vengeance, heroes, graphic violence, assassination, nightclub ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.
Style:
erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
police, nude, graphic violence, police detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, good versus evil, investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, one man army, heroes, athlete's life, gang, rivalry, vengeance, corrupt cop, violence, gunfight, rapper, fight ...
Place:
british columbia, middle east, iraq, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, heroes, female fight, working undercover, contests and competitions, law enforcement, ambition, rivalry, master warrior, vengeance, graphic violence, tattoo ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
412
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, save the day, race against time, confined, law enforcement, heroes, terrorist plot, terrorist group, militia, hostage ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner extraction mission. Forced to fight his way out of a maximum-security Chechen prison, he must keep his ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, heroic mission, daring rescue, one man army, confined, prison, escape, graphic violence, heroes, master warrior, mortal combat, danger
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
black market, revenge, organ, suspense, kidnapping, police detective, vengeance, investigation, rivalry, law enforcement, immigrants, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago illinois, poland, usa, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo's wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, vengeance, rivalry, police investigation, undercover, curses spells and rituals, gangsters, law enforcement, ghost, murder, ninja, tough heroes ...
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, fighting crime, gang, vengeance, rivalry, leadership, gangsters, vigilantism, tough heroes, society, suspense, murder ...
Time:
future
Place:
england, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, reluctant partners, partners, survival, violence, rivalry, forest, illegal drugs, betrayal, gang, strong violent content, suspense ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When his wife and son are brutally murdered by a fugitive drug lord that he helped put behind bars, former Special Ops agent Derek Leigh vows to avenge their deaths. After mastering lethal fighting skills at the hands of a martial arts instructor, ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Captured international assassins are locked up inside a high-tech bunker known as the Killing Chamber. To break out of this concrete hell they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas and battle against gangs of masked maniacs. And... if they ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, murder, survival, rivalry, mortal combat, captivity, battles, violence, brutality, medieval, female fighter, death ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
martial arts, spy, behind enemy lines, terrorist, gunfight, one against many, home invasion, heroes, soldier, starting over, assassination, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A fearsome warrior from the Kingdom of Samarza arrives in America to assassinate a high school girl. The girl does not know it, but she is the last living heir to the Kingdom. A noble guard arrives in America to protect the young princess.
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, hitman, rivalry, heir, assassination, save the princess, assassination attempt, ninja, mission, medieval, showdown, martial arts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A hit man's boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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