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Journal of a Contract Killer (2008)
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Journal of a Contract Killer (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. Now working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the Mob track Stephanie down and persuade her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge! Inspired by true events, JOURNAL OF A CONTRACT KILLER is the gripping story of a woman driven to turn on her paymasters with devastating consequences.
Style: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Plot: italian mafia, killer, prostitute, hitman, kidnapping, vengeance, rivalry, single parent, violence, revenge, death, murder, assassin, professional, sexual content, woman with a gun, life changing, female assassin, sex, murderer, victim, flashback, journal, killing, ruthlessness ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, london, italy
Keyword: attack

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, rivalry, hitman, murder, gangster, vengeance and assassin mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Journal of a Contract Killer: Killing Time (1998), The Contract (1999), The Job (2003), Shadowboxer (2005), Stiletto (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Killing Time (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the mobster who murdered his partner is acquitted, semicorrupt detective Robert Bryant hires a beautiful female assassin, Maria, to kill him. When he discovers that he cannot afford Maria's services, Bryant is forced to hire another ...
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: hitman, vengeance, woman with a gun, police corruption, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, femme fatale, rivalry, serial killer, goofy hero, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england
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The Contract (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hannah has been trained in the lethal art of assasination by her father Luc, a former sniper with the special forces in Vietnam. When her father is unexpectedly killed she is forced to choose between the violent world she knows and the ordinary ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: female assassin, female fighter, woman with a gun, female fight, spy, assassination, conspiracy, hitman, rivalry, danger, chases and races, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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The Job (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: CJ is a sexy, cold-blooded assassin who wants to quit the business. She agrees to carry out one last hit, but for the first time in her career as an assassin, she is unable to finish the job.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female assassin, pregnancy, chases and races, hitman, danger, society, drug dealing, moral dilemma, killer, assassin, strong female lead, female fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Shadowboxer (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, partner, introspection, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female killer, stepmother stepson relationship, killer, assassin ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: cuba, philadelphia
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Stiletto (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, vengeance, police investigation, hitman, betrayal, rivalry, tough heroes, police detective, dishonesty, danger, kick-butt women, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Montana (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, hitman, assassin, haunted by the past, teaching the ways of the world, coming of age, gangster, master criminal, urban, black, mafia, revenge plot ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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The Last Hit Man (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ageing hit man, Harry, has just botched a job and is now the target. His daughter is also in the assassin trade and is now a target too. A young hit man called Billy is sent to take Harry out but they form an uneasy alliance...
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, rivalry, family relations, danger, partner, parents and children, terminal illness, killer, save the day, murder, assassin, contract killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Black Angel Vol. 1 (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious ...
Style: neo noir, crime drama, serious, realistic, exciting ...
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Interview with a Hitman (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, gangster, danger, betrayal, rivalry, murder, haunted by the past, starting over, chase, gory, prodigy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Profesional (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, visually appealing
Plot: murder, puzzle, assassin, loner, hitman, contract, death, gangster, violence, criminal, society, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Best Seller (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Duration: 120 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Men of Respect (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Vendetta (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
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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 ...
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Shatter (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all ...
Style: psychotronic, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An enforcer for the mob enacts revenge on those who wronged her.
Style: captivating, serious, bleak, tense, dark ...
Plot: woman with a gun, revenge, vengeance, dark power, avenge, murder, female assassin, assassin, dark heroine, hitman, killer
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a ...
Style: stylized, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.1
 2K
Headshot (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, vengeance, danger, disorder, dishonesty, secret movement, frame up, assassination, sex, asian, killer, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Divine Move (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
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Duration: 118 min.
Story: Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
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Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 2K
The Escapist (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, prison, tough heroes, violence spree, heroes, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, gang, revenge, escape, fugitives ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.3
 429
Rockaway (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, tense, serious ...
Plot: vigilantism, soldier, vengeance, police corruption, downfall, gangster, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, gang, police investigation, criminal's revenge, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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