Movies like Breakdown 2016

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Breakdown (2016)
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Breakdown (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A professional contract killer, haunted by visions of his violent past, spirals out of control. His work compromised as he reaches breaking point, he is forced to defend his family from his ruthless employers.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, emotional, suspense, disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: hitman, hallucination, haunted by the past, post traumatic stress disorder, ex soldier, family relations, family in danger, criminal gang, seeing dead people, murder, assassin, party, love triangle, torture, betrayal, birthday, hospital, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, mansion, deer, mother daughter relationship, panic attack, boss, telephone call ...
Keyword: gangsters

Most similar movies to Breakdown

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, suspense and serious films with plots about murder, gangster, violence, shot to death, shot in the chest, blood and danger mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Breakdown: Freight (2010), Villain (2020), Interview with a Hitman (2012), Standoff (2016), Hidden Assassin (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Freight (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Russian gang operating in Leeds with no respect for the laws of England, traffic Eastern Europeans in containers then enslave them, the women to sex, the men to illegal fights. They cross local businessman Gabe Taylor and a war escalates, but when ...
Style: emotional, suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, kidnapping, father daughter relationship, prostitute, strip club, fistfight, crime boss, brother brother relationship, vengeance, power relations, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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95%
 5.9
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Villain (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, rivalry, police, murder, debt, society, violence, escapades, family relations, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Interview with a Hitman (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An elite hitman returns to erase his past only to find that somebody has messed with his future.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, mafia, killer, betrayal, who to trust, criminal heroes, danger, crime boss, revenge, gangster, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: romania, london, united kingdom, england, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.1
 9K
Standoff (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A troubled veteran gets a chance at redemption by protecting a girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Holding a shotgun with a single shell, he engages in physical and psychological warfare in a desperate fight for the girl's life.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: witness, murder, home invasion, rescue, mind game, moral dilemma, danger, deception, escape, brutality, gunfight, redemption ...
Time: year 2016, year 2015, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Hidden Assassin (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, hitman, assassination, terrorism, die hard, 007, political conspiracy, undercover agent, assassin, murder, espionage, assassination attempt ...
Time: 90s
Place: prague, czech republic, new york, europe, cuba ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.0
 2K
Mr. Long (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.
Style: captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense, tense
Plot: hitman, haunted by the past, lifestyle change, plan gone wrong, assignment, starting over, wound, small town, escape, small business, thoughtful, organized crime ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.5
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Officer Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, police corruption, cop, police detective, manipulation, vigilantism, law enforcement, vengeance, haunted by the past, dishonesty, murder, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.3
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Retribution (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A hardened debt-collector goes on a 24-hour rampage through London in an attempt to avenge the brutal attack on his teenage daughter.
Style: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot: revenge, debt collector, criminal gang, teenage daughter, sociopath, manhunt, hitman, father daughter relationship, assault, daughter, contract killer, gangster
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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 ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, hitman, serial killer, writers, vengeance, assassin, anti hero, police detective, psychopath, writer's life, danger, killer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987, 70s
Place: texas, california, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
46%
Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, hooligan, drug abuse, murder, criminal, betrayal, police investigation, partners in crime, criminal heroes, rivalry, vicious, dishonor among criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark
Plot: drug dealer, fight, drug, organized crime, gang leader, crime boss, criminal, murder, drug smuggling, gang war, drug lord, business competition ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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London Heist (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Armed robber and career criminal Jack Cregan seeks to discover the truth behind his father's murder and his stolen heist money and in doing so puts his life in danger. The devastation that Jack soon discovers puts his very own existence into ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: criminal, revenge, gangster, police shootout, gang, murder, robbery, con artists, theft, fight, battles, stolen money ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Tax Collector (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to ...
Style: ambiguous ending, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak ...
Plot: sadism, drug smuggler, tax collector, hitman, family relations, female psychopath, violence, drug dealer, danger, drug, taxes, male objectification ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.5
 12K
Lucifer (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, political ...
Plot: politics, fight, revenge, murder, betrayal, police officer, husband wife relationship, violence, family relations, fire, father daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
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41%
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 1K
Slaughter (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gangster, vietnam war, organized crime, murder, black, profanity, heroes, vigilantism, mobster, male nudity, black hero ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
 5K
Xtreme (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, perverse, thrilling ...
Plot: hitman, sword fight, murder, vengeance, revenge, gang, female warrior, criminal gang, criminal, showdown, killer, murderer ...
Time: 2020s
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.1
 36K
Get Carter (2000)
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
Plot: hitman, gangster, lone wolves, revenge, murder, vengeance, brutality, criminal heroes, rivalry, criminal's revenge, assassin, adaptation ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Courier (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: female warrior, delivery man, one against many, dark heroine, black ops, ex special forces, femme fatale, revenge, one woman army, mystery woman, haunted by the past, attempted murder ...
Time: 2010s
Place: washington d.c., new york, tower bridge london, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 20K
The Sweeney (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the '70s UK TV show, The Sweeney is an action-packed British police thriller from the director of Football Factory. Jack Regan (Ray Winstone), a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, police brutality, police corruption, partner, murder, investigation, machismo, internal affairs, gold bar, partners against crime, law enforcement, jail ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: england, london, united kingdom
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37%
 6.0
 16K
6 Bullets (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, martial arts, danger, child in peril, daring rescue, missing child, father son relationship, organized crime, police detective, government agent, murder, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Desperate Hours (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A criminal holds a wealthy family hostage.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: home invasion, father son relationship, hostage, dysfunctional family, mind game, justice, fbi, police investigation, moral ambiguity, family relations, manhunt, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: utah, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Southwest (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Story: Ex-military Captain Samantha Williams, is "recruited" to put together a team of ex-military and criminals. Williams must carry out unlawful orders to protect the world's most powerful criminal organization, the US Government.
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, crying, independent film ...
Plot: conspiracy, gangster, criminal, military, female protagonist, secret, spy, murder, betrayal, battles, showdown, assassin ...
Place: usa, los angeles, las vegas, san francisco, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Proud Mary (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, retro ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female warrior, female assassin, gangster, revenge, female killer, female protagonist, murder, death, one woman army, black, violence, strong female lead ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Tesseract (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Thailand, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind blowing ...
Plot: hitman, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, crime gone awry, police investigation, death in the family, destiny, dishonesty, death of child, butterfly effect ...
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Baseline (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Baseline is the centre of the East London grime club scene and the queue regularly stretches around the block. Danny works on the door - breaking up fights and managing drunk kids. However, when he rescues Terry, the club owner and local gang ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Plot: gang, gangster, breakup, moral dilemma, rivalry, murder, love and romance, danger, hitman, master criminal
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.2
 91K
Harry Brown (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Style: tense, suspense, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vigilantism, vengeance, vigilante, murder, revenge, violence, brutality, investigation, gangster, vigilante justice, widower, urban ...
Time: year 2009, y2k, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, persia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the owner's murder at the hands of an old ...
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gangster, martial arts, femme fatale, vengeance, secret identity, vigilantism, betrayal, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, danger ...
Place: tangier morocco, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
American Night (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, car chase, fight, art, criminal heroes, betrayal, violence, revenge, brutality, death, crime boss ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.4
 45K
Kill List (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: folk horror, hitman, ritual sacrifice, brutality, torture, violent, macabre, gory, murder, infection, priest, twists and turns ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: yorkshire, united kingdom, britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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