Movies like The Local

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The Local (2008)
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The Local (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redemption, daring rescue, heroes, addiction, life is a bitch, rivalry, drug dealing, danger, lone wolves, city life, fight, violence, kidnapping, urban, tough heroes, anti hero, family relations, post war, existentialism, nudity, drug, nude, anti heroes, nudity (full frontal - brief), crimes ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa

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Most similar movies to The Local

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about rivalry, heroes, danger, tough heroes, fight, violent content and martial arts mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Local: Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005), The Scorpion (2007), Trial by Fire (2008), Extreme Honor (2001), Bad Asses on the Bayou (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "From the day I was born I had to fight to survive. I fought everyone and everything that came in front of me. On the streets, confessions are made in Blood. They say that when you confess your sins, only then can you be redeemed. This is my ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, prison, underground fighting, vigilantism, vengeance, starting over, rivalry, redemption, gangster, ambition, hopes, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.4
 795
The Scorpion (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, rivalry, redemption, underground fighting, imprisonment, contests and competitions, danger, fight, performer's life, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 4.9
 442
Trial by Fire (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A firefighter is wrongly blamed for the death of her father, hours before he was due to retire from the department. Eager to prove herself to her peers, she sets out to join an elite squad of smoke jumpers who are expected to jump from aeroplanes ...
Style: realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: firefighter, daring rescue, save the day, basic training, danger, ambition, gender, female protagonist, death of father, false accusation, firefight, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 3.4
 238
Extreme Honor (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.
Style: realistic, rough, exciting, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: false accusation, betrayal, law enforcement, life is a bitch, rivalry, gang, dishonesty, frame up, child illness, tough heroes, violent content, terminal illness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Bad Asses on the Bayou (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and Bernie Pope (Danny Glover), as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend ...
Style: exciting, realistic, rough, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, partner, vigilantism, rivalry, danger, elderly, partners against crime, aging, heroes, vigilante, superhero, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Never Surrender (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: From the cage to the big screen, the world's greatest Mixed Martial Arts Champions come together for the first time in a major motion picture. When an MMA world champion is lured into the illegal world of underground cage fighting by an elusive ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: underground fighting, martial arts, cage fighting, mixed martial arts, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, fight, danger, heroes, tough heroes, mentor ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The City Is Mine (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man coming home after serving time in the penitentiary finds his city in control by local thugs, stops at nothing to gain sole control of a city he feels is rightfully his.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, rivalry, gang, criminal's revenge, gangster, drug dealing, urban ghetto, buddies, ego clash, police, love, prison ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 4.8
 729
Cage (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, martial arts, competition, fight, friendship, beefcake martial arts, beefcake, cage fighting, vietnam veteran, cell, gangster, confined ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Christmas Rush (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the season of giving, the department took his badge. Criminals took his wife. Now, one cop is taking matters into his own hands
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: christmas, law enforcement, save the day, partner, danger, master criminal, crime gone awry, rivalry, disorder, die hard, hijacking, chases and races ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. Everything does not go as planned. Their communications are cut off and they must remember their ...
Style: independent film, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: violent content, danger, military, escapades, heroic mission, undercover, chases and races, heroes, daring rescue, female nudity, shootout, sergeant ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, korea, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.4
 7K
El Gringo (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000 – and a bloody past – suddenly finds himself under attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: gang, rivalry, danger, cowboy, violence, small town, modern western, desert, fight, gunfight, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Fury of the Shaolin Master (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A government law officer is dispatched to bring his brother's killers to justice. On his bloody mission, untold assassins are thrown at him, but to no avail. One by one they are done away with in a most militant style.
Style: exciting, rough, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shaolin monk, shaolin kung fu, revenge, karate, master warrior, martial arts, violent content, lone wolves, vengeance, rivalry, danger, one man army ...
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Pushed to the Limit (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Magnificent Mimi is a woman with a destiny and a bright future ahead of her. She is the world's greatest female wrestling champion, she has a loving boyfriend and loyal family members who care and love her. But things take a turn for the worst ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: female bodybuilder, wrestling, female fight, martial arts, women's wrestling, competition, fight, kickass, revenge, murder, female wrestler, femme fatale ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.1
 4K
The Reunion (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Cleary brothers, Sam (John Cena), Leo (Ethan Embry) and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook) took dysfunctional families to a new level: Sam and Leo have grown up hating each other and neither likes their juvenile delinquent kid brother, Douglas, to whom ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, captivating, fast, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: siblings relations, rivalry, death of father, escapades, danger, estranged brother, tough heroes, chases and races, desert, ransom, released from prison, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.3
 248
The Waiter (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man travels through corporate corruption and his own sin to find his soul.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot: hitman, rivalry, dishonesty, danger, tough guy, gunfight, violence, wind, battles, shootout, fight, arab ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.3
 64
Two Coyotes (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A drug runner takes over a lucrative drug business only to find his new found empire crumble when a deal goes bad.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, betrayal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, drug dealing, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, addiction, criminal heroes, going straight, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 2.9
 718
Death Warrior (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gritty MMA fighter is forced into a twisted, underground gambling ring in which he must fight to the death with other MMA fighters in order to save his wife from certain death at the hands of a maniacal crime boss. In a desperate race against ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: martial arts, survival, rivalry, contests and competitions, danger, ambition, profanity, violence, mortal combat, fight, murder, mixed martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Everyday Black Man (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Since closing the door to a violent past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton everyday existence is running a small neighborhood store, and watching over his daughter who doesn't know he exists. When a young man, Malik, comes in claiming to be a ...
Style: realistic, tense, captivating, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: forced into action, drug dealing, going straight, social relations, family relations, store, small town, parents and children, society, profanity, muslim, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Tracker (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Spears, a private detective working in L.A. receives word from an old friend that the friend's sister (and Spears' ex-girlfriend), Kim, has been kidnapped by a criminal gang. At first, Spears doesn't want to get involved, especially ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, kung fu, hand to hand combat, gunfight, russian mafia, gangster, gang, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, private detective ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.1
 295
Muscle Heat (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the year 2009, a young policeman must collapse a Yakuza family whose members make a large profit with a new drug.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, contests and competitions, danger, law enforcement, tough heroes, fighting crime, rivalry, master warrior, master criminal, drug dealing, heroes ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
50%
The Wrecking Crew (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rival gang, working undercover, undercover, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, partners against crime, danger, rivalry, partner, hip hop, gang war ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Target of Opportunity (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, friendship, rescue, escapades, dishonesty, danger, political intrigue, spy, conflict, secret agent, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria, europe, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Dead Sleep Easy (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Mexican wrestler entangled with the mob seeks revenge after a group of Mexican migrants are massacred in a human smuggling ring.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: hitman, heroes, redemption, gangster, injustice, danger, rivalry, assassination, gambling, collision, stripper, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Bronson Lee, Champion (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion. Local Japanese karate schools are not happy that a Chinese master will take over the Japanese karate organization and will ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: martial arts, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, danger, escapades, heroes, rivalry, farm, fight, karate, martial arts tournament ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, ohio, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Road of No Return (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, undercover, danger, introspection, race against time, politics, law enforcement, anti hero, heroes, rivalry, orphan, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Ninja Vengeance (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Traveling from California to Houston, a martial arts expert suffers a motorcycle breakdown in a small Texas town. But his bad luck proves to be a blessing in disguise for the local townspeople when he discovers the corrupt sheriff and his KKK ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: ninja, revenge, martial arts, sexual content, violent content, nudity, small town, racism, master warrior, vengeance, society, heroes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Paper Will Be Blue (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot: soldier, political unrest, terrorism, danger, military, idealism, state affairs, daring rescue, romanian revolution, artist, media, society ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.0
 241
Cartel War (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: working undercover, rivalry, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, revenge, male female relationship, police, murder, friendship, war on drugs, fighting crime ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 2.7
 2K
Crazy Six (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Slovakia, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: gangster, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, rivalry, government agency, master criminal, life is a bitch, addiction, violence, crime boss, communism ...
Time: future
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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