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No Escape No Return (1993)
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No Escape No Return (1993)
Original name: No Escape, No Return
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two cops go undercover to infiltrate a violent drug ring, and are in for a shock when they find out who's running it.
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
Plot: undercover, drug cartel, police shootout, drug dealing, working undercover, law enforcement, police detective, estrangement, dishonesty, righting the wronged, special agent, martial arts, karate, police officer, violence, car chase, conspiracy, van, lapd, infiltration, drug, explosion, chevrolet, live action, exploding car ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, law enforcement, undercover, dishonesty, deadly, chases and races and working undercover mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like No Escape No Return: Hard Justice (1995), Intent to Kill (1992), Recoil (1998), Shootfighter II (1996), Crime Lords (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hard Justice (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams (David Bradley) goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike (Charles Napier) and his pet goons are involved in all kinds of corrupt activities; dope dealing and gun ...
Style: bloody, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, martial arts, prison, government agent, corruption, undercover agent, karate, convict, gunfight, fistfight, special agent, partner ...
Time: 90s
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Intent to Kill (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young policewoman relentlessly tries to bring down a ruthless drug kingpin whom plots his own agenda for his drug distribution empire.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug dealing, woman with a gun, femme fatale, tough heroes, vengeance, law enforcement, undercover, chases and races, rivalry, prostitute, chase, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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Recoil (1998)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Detective Ray Morgan accidentally kills the son of a mob boss. The mob boss orders to have Morgan killed unknowing that the assassin killed Morgan's wife and kids. Now Morgan's out for revenge..and he'll do it his own way
Style: suspense, independent film, detective, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, gangster, violent, cop, car chase, martial arts, murder of family, death of son, bank robbery, vendetta, dishonesty, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Shootfighter II (1996)
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: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroes, female fight, boxer, working undercover, ambition, danger, contests and competitions, law enforcement, master warrior, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Crime Lords (1991)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two ex-cops find themselves alone in their fight against the largest crime syndicate in the world - the Crime Lords. The action takes us from the streets of Los Angeles to the back alleys of Hong Kong in this buddy movie.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal syndicate, lapd, dishonesty, partners against crime, law enforcement, heist, friendship, friends, gangster, partner, police officer, villainess ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, hong kong, usa, china, california ...
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Mission of Justice (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mayoral candidate Dr. Rachel Olsen (Brigitte Nielsen) has a dangerous plan for swift justice in the form of a band of ex-convicts, called the Peacemakers, who roam the streets to do her bidding. When a boxer friend (Tony Burton) is killed by ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vigilantism, rivalry, injustice, tall woman, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, police detective, tough heroes, working undercover, vigilante ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
New World Disorder (1999)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A gang of four eyed crooks led by Kurt Bishop (McCarthy) are ripping off top dollar computer chips from a list of factories. The night they hit Dynaphase Systems, two dirty employees are staying late using company resources to develop their own ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: computer, dystopian future, computers and web, kidnapping, woman in danger, school, police corruption, danger, dishonesty, confined, chases and races, undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Crooked (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two police detectives must protect a beautiful call girl from mob hitmen and a crooked cop.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, murder, woman in danger, witnessing a crime, police investigation, danger, partner, chases and races, martial arts, mafia, gunfight, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Last of the Finest (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug, die hard, car chase, police, cop, drug dealer, police shootout, conspiracy, police corruption, illegal drugs, partner, rebellion ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Vigilante (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Luke is viciously attacked and his fiancée is raped and murdered, he pledges to train himself in deadly hand to hand combat and use it against any wrong doers who dare to cross his path.
Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: martial arts, murder, vengeance, rivalry, assassination, vigilantism, dishonesty, good versus evil, police corruption, frame up, violence, vigilante ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.6
 484
Out for Blood (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A lawyer's family is murdered by drug smugglers, and he is beaten and left for dead, but survives although in a coma. When he awakes he only has a partial memory of what happened. In order to find out the real story, he trains with a karate ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
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 4.0
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Cartel War (2010)
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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 ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Midnight Witness (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Renegade cops are videotaped murdering a motorist and the witnesses are in danger of being their next victims.
Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: police corruption, law enforcement, chases and races, misfit, dishonesty, life is a bitch, on the run, danger, chase, witnessing a crime, police detective, injustice ...
Time: 90s
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53%
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Tiger Claws (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Country: Canada, UK, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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48%
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 2K
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45%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Country: USA
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