Movies like Sky on Fire

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Sky on Fire (2016)
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Sky on Fire (2016)
Original name: 冲天火
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The chief security officer at a top-secret medical facility finds himself caught in an explosive battle when a young thief and his accomplices steal a groundbreaking curative medicine. After discovering the true origins of the medicine, the officer must decide who he can trust to protect the cure from falling into the wrong hands, and prevent an all-out war from bringing the city to its knees.
Style: tense, suspenseful, harsh, intense
Plot: security guard, police officer, police shootout, fight, scuffle, car chase, weapons, gunfight, chase, police chase, fistfight, high speed chase, police escort
Place: china

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, exciting and serious films with plots about police officer, police, gunfight, police officer killed, shootout, police shootout and fight mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Sky on Fire: Firestorm (2013), The White Storm (2013), Wild City (2015), Decibel (2022), The Greatest Battle of Wolves (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Firestorm (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A crew of seasoned criminals led by the notorious Nam, armed with high-powered weapons, pulls off another smooth and violent armored car heist in broad daylight in a crowded street. Whoever tries to get in their way, they will show no mercy. This ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, master criminal, undercover, gain trust, chase, law enforcement, rivalry, gunfight, organized crime, gang, triad, armed forces ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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95%
The White Storm (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story: An operation against the notorious druglord in Thailand changed the destiny of a HK narcotic team- the workaholic captain lost his men and bright career; the loyal officer was abandoned and went missing; the undercover cop who was salvaged chose to ...
Style: crime drama, suspense, rough, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot: gunfight, undercover cop, drug, police officer, police shootout, police officer killed, police, swat team, heroic bloodshed, survival, fight, undercover agent ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Wild City (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Former cop-turned-bar owner Kwok and his underachieving half-brother befriends a drunken woman, they soon find themselves targeted by both her former lover, a high-powered attorney, and the gangster he employs. A suitcase full of tainted cash enters ...
Style: suspense, contemplative, exciting, suspenseful, heroic ...
Plot: brother brother conflict, organized crime, chase, blood, police, violence, police officer, ex cop, murder, drunkenness, brother brother relationship, swashbuckler ...
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.1
 2K
Decibel (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A former Naval officer with a dark past must face off against an insurgent with a sound sensitive bomb.
Style: suspenseful, tense, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot: terrorism, commander, navy, bomb, terrorist, post traumatic stress disorder, soccer match, scuffle, chase, fistfight, ptsd
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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The Greatest Battle of Wolves (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A veteran mobster finds that not only are the police after him, but so are members of his own gang, led by a young gangster who wants to take over.
Style: fast, serious, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, police, gangster, fight, murder, strong violent content, dishonesty, chases and races, chase, danger, on the run ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
District 13: Ultimatum (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
Style: harsh, stylized, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, fight, parkour, undercover cop, fighting the system, gang, martial arts, corruption, prison escape, fistfight, rebellion, gang war ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Line Walker (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The details of undercover police officers are deleted from a police database and a senior officer is left struggling to know who are the undercover officers and who are the criminals.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, crime drama
Plot: undercover cop, police investigation, undercover, criminal syndicate, drug deal, car chase, gunfight, drug kingpin, bodyguard, skyscraper, brotherhood, cat and mouse ...
Place: china, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
That Demon Within (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: By a strange twist of fate, dutiful Hong Kong policeman Dan saves the life of the leader of a violent gang of armed robbers. When they commit another crime, Dan is determined to put an end to their activities. He works with the leader, whom the ...
Style: psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redemption, tough law enforcer, gang, law enforcement, police officer, police officer killed, guilt, obsession, heroic bloodshed, urban, police shootout, self mutilation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Buried in Barstow (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Follows Hazel King, a single mother determined to protect her daughter from the life she once had while defending and protecting those who can't protect themselves.
Style: tense, dramatic, intense, serious, harsh ...
Plot: woman hits a man, single mother, woman with a gun, weapons, mother and daughter, female killer, waitress, fistfight, female protagonist, scuffle, killer, murderer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Takeover (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Self-proclaimed ethical hacker Mel Bandison's life is turned upside down when she stops a data breach on a high-tech self-driving bus that also happens to shut down an international criminal network. She then becomes a target and is framed with ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, harsh
Plot: hacker, fight, police, criminal, scandal, murder, investigation, female protagonist, blackmail, gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Bloody Brotherhood (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bloody Brotherhood didn't make much of a splash at the HK box office (just reaching that "magic" two-week theatrical run where most HK movies reach the break-even point) and it's gone largely ignored by fans, even though it stars ...
Style: heroic, poliziottesco
Plot: heroic bloodshed, kung fu, combat, police officer killed, boat, fistfight, dead girl, bloodbath, armed robbery, child killed, fight, security guard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Motorway (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two police pursuit drivers, a hothead rookie and his long-suffering, almost-retired mentor, face off against an escape car driver from the latter's past.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, uninhibited rivalry, heist, law enforcer killer, car, police shootout, gunfight, fast car, racing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Invisible Target (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Three cops team up to bring down a criminal gang of seven, who have their own hidden agenda.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, chase, gang, car chase, vigilantism, partners against crime, hostage, master criminal, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, fighting crime, law enforcement ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Big Shot (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Chinese remake of korean film Veteran
Style: realistic, suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: police investigation, police detective, partner, escapades, investigation, murder, society, who done it, mysterious man, testimony, partners against crime, murderer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.3
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Transporter 2 (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Professional driver Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policymaker and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank ...
Style: sexy, action packed, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lone hero, martial arts, car chase, kidnapping, fight scenes, weapons, car, driver, explosions, gunfight, driving, mentor ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Cop Target (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her escort soon suspects that the deceased husband was involved in ...
Style: independent film, poliziottesco
Plot: explosions, cop, exploitation, gun fu, shooting, shootout, maverick, fistfight, helicopter, tough cop, police shootout, action violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Security (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: security guard, gunfight, female warrior, shopping mall, danger, brutality, warrior, tough law enforcer, hand to hand combat, machismo, unlikely partners, job seeking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Purple Storm (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission. Todd, Chow's son and fiercely loyal right-hand man, sustains a serious head wound. Now a total amnesiac, Todd wakes from a coma to find he's been ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cambodian civil war, swat team, die hard, political conspiracy, boat, kung fu, undercover, terrorism, tunnel, redemption, rescue, moral dilemma ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, cambodia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Three (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Realising that he will be defeated in no time during a police showdown, a thug shoots himself to force the cops to cease fire and take him to the hospital. In the hospital, he claims human rights to refuse immediate treatment in order to buy time ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, heroic
Plot: police officer, husband wife relationship, police detective, robbery, policewoman, gangster, police, police shootout, triad, gunfight, woman with a gun, heroic bloodshed ...
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Beast Stalker (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sergeant Tong is wracked with guilt after he unwittingly kills a young girl whilst capuring a criminal named Cheung. When the girl's sister is later kidnapped in a ploy to get Cheung released, Sergeant Tong vows to find and rescue her before ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: kidnapping, criminal, fighting crime, guilty conscience, police detective, accidental killing, child abduction, blackmail, murder, escapades, freak accident, tragic event ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Flash Point (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, non stop action ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, drug lord, kung fu, fighting crime, fight, police investigation, gang, danger, rivalry, working undercover, vigilantism, arrest ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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35%
SPL 2: A Time for Consequences (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A Hong Kong cop named Kit busts a major gangster only to find his cover blown and his main witness gone. The gangster, in retaliation, has him kidnapped and put in a Thai jail with a false criminal identity. A lowly prison guard Chai with ...
Style: crime drama, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: martial arts, drug addict, medieval, police officer, police officer killed, murder, torture, prison escape, fight, bandit, crime boss, gang ...
Time: 2010s
Place: china, hong kong, bangkok thailand, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Knuckledust (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When Police kicks open the doors of the elite underground fight club Knuckledust, they find seven levels of hell, filled with the dead bodies of countless fighters, assassins and goons. Only one man, beaten up to a pulp, is still breathing: Hard ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, harsh, captivating
Plot: criminal, combat, blood, police officer, fight club, investigation, boxing
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Full Alert (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. Jockey Club
Style: heroic, neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, car chase, cop, triad, heist, battles, chases and races, gang, law enforcement, danger, confined, on the run ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
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Shock Wave 2 (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When a bomb went off unexpectedly during a police operation to disarm it, bomb disposal officer Poon Shing-Fung got caught in the blast and lost one of his legs. Poon decided to leave the police service. Three years later, the police suspect Poon, ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: bomb, amnesia, police officer killed, police shootout, false accusation, undercover cop, undercover, escapades, danger, memory loss, die hard, war ...
Place: china, hong kong, nepal
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34%
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Drug War (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The taciturn police commander Zhang leads an undercover drugs team and in his continuous battle against the ubiquitous drug barons, takes up arms against his arch enemy, Timmy Choi. When he gets hold of Choi, he makes a deal with him: in exchange ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war on drugs, drug cartel, whistleblower, mole, criminal, recruit, law enforcement, betrayal, dishonesty, triad, gang, shooting ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.6
 714
The Brink (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Reckless police inspector Sai Gau (Zhang Jin) is on a mission to crack down on criminal Shing's (Shawn Yue) gold smuggling scheme, yet fails to arrest him. As Sai Gau continues his manhunt, he discovers Shing's involvement with triad boss ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: police officer, fighting crime, smuggling, crime boss, revenge, power struggle, fight, mafia, smuggler, japanese mafia, boat, die hard ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.3
 4K
Shock Wave (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: bomb, swat team, revenge, police officer, secret police, mercenary, hostage, gunfight, murder, police officer taken hostage, police shootout, asian ...
Time: 2010s
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 320K
The Transporter (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, sexy, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: car chase, chase, one man army, tough guy, lone hero, martial arts, transportation, tough heroes, fight scenes, escapades, car, smuggling ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, europe, saint tropez, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.5
 2K
The Sniper (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A police sniper teams up with a hot-headed rookie to take down his former friend and teammate, who is exacting revenge on the police force.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: sniper, vengeance, partner, law enforcement, rivalry, disagreement, moral dilemma, chase, murder, police, hostage situation, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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