Movies like Code Name: Diamond Head

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Code Name: Diamond Head (1977)
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Code Name: Diamond Head (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A failed Quinn Martin pilot for a series starring a Hawaii-based government counter intelligence agency run by the indomitable Aunt Mary. In this, his only adventure, Diamond Head has to prevent the evil Tree from stealing a deadly nerve toxin gas and selling it to foreign powers. To help Diamond Head is the Dragon Lady and Zulu.
Style: grindhouse, tv series pilot
Plot: spy, gambling, kidnapping, bio weapon, hanging, disguise, fistfight, attempted murder, multiple murder, serial killer, boat chase
Place: hawaii

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Most similar movies to Code Name: Diamond Head

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out grindhouse, independent film, serious and suspenseful films with plots about kidnapping, fistfight, revenge, shootout, violence, murder and martial arts mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Code Name: Diamond Head: Assignment K (1968), The Helicopter Spies (1968), Killpoint (1984), Tripwire (1989), See the Man Run (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Assignment K (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, eurospy
Plot: espionage, cold war, secret, agent, spy
Place: west germany, austria, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Helicopter Spies (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.
Style: grindhouse, spoof, parody, psychotronic
Plot: spy, espionage, woman with a gun, undercover, cold war, shootout, village, sensuality, pistol, violence, seduction, sex ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 4.3
 401
Killpoint (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: rape, murder, cop, hand to hand combat, bodybuilder, nightclub, smuggling, martial arts, fistfight, weapons, police, gangster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 5.0
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Tripwire (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo (David Warner) hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: die hard, disaster, subway, gang leader, father son reunion, fistfight, englishman, drugged, attempted murder, train robbery, agent, cigarette smoking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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See the Man Run (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number & reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.
Style: crime thriller
Plot: kidnapping, disguise, ransom, greed, police chase, troubled marriage, scam, actor, victim, rescue, scheme, actor's life
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Pistol Whipped (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gambling, spy, aikido, downfall, danger, introspection, life is a bitch, dishonesty, redemption, father daughter relationship, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The London Connection (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped on his arrival in London, car chases, foot chases, air chases, British secret service and a couple of American tourist caught in the middle.
Style: independent film
Plot: spy, agent, child spy, jewel theft, kidnapping, scientist, motorcycle chase, secret plan, cia, energy, formula, james bond spoof ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, kidnapping, maximum security prison, revenge, prison guard, murder, extreme violence, prison warden, prisoner, boxer, fight, violence ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell Up in Harlem is nothing less than a ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, grim, hood, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, gangster, black, mafia, gang, murder, mobster, gotham city, underground, ghetto, police corruption ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Memories of Manon (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Yvette Marcel (Melissa Anderson) asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before.
Style: independent film
Plot: spy, rescue, espionage, damsel in distress, separation, assassination attempt, generation gap, home invasion, hitman, kidnapping, politics, agent ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Seven Hours to Judgment (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
Style: independent film, neo noir
Plot: street gang, judge, threat to kill, coma, abduction, husband wife relationship, computer, kidnapping, attempted murder, race against time, gang, woman in jeopardy ...
Time: 80s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Enter the Ninja (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Vietnam veteran by the name of Cole (Franco Nero) visits his war buddy Frank Landers (Alex Courtney) and his newly wed wife Mary Ann Landers (Susan George), who are the owners of a ...
Style: grindhouse, bloody, action adventure, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, sword fight, fight scenes, death, kung fu, exploitation, cannon, violence, chase, fight, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style: neo noir, suspense, intense, cynical, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, gunfight, twists and turns, gangster, hostage, pregnancy, car chase, rags to riches, confined, disorder, mafia, heist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: bolivia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Dusting Cliff 7 (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In this action adventure, a former hit woman comes out of retirement to rescue her daughter from kidnappers. The child's abductors demand that the ex-killer retrieve a highly classified document. They give the woman 24 hours to succeed. If she ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, female assassin, hitman, spy, hostage, desert, undercover, confined, chases and races, danger, daring rescue, espionage ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, undercover, rescue, state affairs, chases and races, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Style: epic, neo noir, hood, grim, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, murder, gangster, private detective, chase, exploitation, police investigation, undercover, black, investigation, racism, gunfight ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, harlem, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Dimension 5 (1966)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: time travel, woman with a gun, espionage, agent, airport, spy, torture, car chase, military police, martial arts, hidden camera, helicopter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Savage Seven (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Biker gang leader Kisum (Adam Roarke) loves waitress Marcia Little Hawk (Joanna Frank). Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk (Robert Walker, Jr.), the leader of a group of American Indians disapproves. At various times these two groups are adversaries ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic
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Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Style: suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, spy, conspiracy, sniper, politics, assassination, shootout, drug cartel, violence, espionage, covert operation, mercenary ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, washington d.c., usa, langley virginia, iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
3 Seconds Before Explosion (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 1960s Japanese spy / heist / yakuza / action film with a typically complicated plot.
Style: grindhouse
Plot: yakuza, jewel theft, master thief, jewelry, shootout, loot, ex nazi, judo, fistfight, gun, explosion
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Street Knight (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, cannon, vigilantism, kung fu, police detective, teenage life, gang, hostage, gangster, gang warfare, city life, against the odds ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Kitten with a Whip (1964)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jody, a juvenile delinquent, escapes from reform school by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn down the building and then takes refuge in a house owned by an ambitious politician David Patton. Despite the hellcat's ample charms, the ...
Style: political, grindhouse, neo noir, cult classic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquent, beat generation, evil child, strong female lead, nymphet, underground, lonely, femme fatale, juvenile delinquency, hospital, kidnapping, hostage ...
Time: 60s
Place: mexico, latin america, usa, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Heat (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.
Style: neo noir, independent film, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bodyguard, prostitute, gambling, killer, casino, fistfight, tough guy, psychopath, hotel room, rape, gambler, male bonding ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, venice, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Secret Agent Fireball (1965)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An American CIA agent (Richard Harrison) must find the whereabouts of valuable microfilm that was smuggled over by two Russian scientists who had been hoping to defect.
Style: grindhouse, eurospy, microfilm
Plot: espionage, cold war, spy, agent, bare chested male, girl fight, car chase, hotel, taxi, airplane, swimming pool, secret agent ...
Place: hamburg germany, lebanon, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl on a train. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of a vice cop. But in one of those plot twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find the ...
Style: grindhouse, action adventure, crime drama, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, child rape, cannon, sex crime, violent, machine gun, drug dealing, prostitute, kidnapping, rape and revenge, revenge, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ 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 ⇓
43%
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Time of Fear (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Time of Fear is a taut psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. FBI Agent Cheryl Hammer, arrives in a small California town to catch an elusive killer. Seeing no help forthcoming ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful
Plot: homicidal maniac, murder, fbi agent, crime solving, murder investigation, murder mystery, killings, catholic priest, killing spree, investigation, unsolved crime, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.6
 109
Hell Hole (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Caged like animals! Sexually abused and brutally tortured! ... Escape is their only hope!
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: prison, woman with a gun, sex slave, big breasts, women in prison, kidnapping, female nudity, death, blood, suicide, women's prison, escape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.3
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Nick of Time (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: assassination, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, accountant, kidnapping, race against time, twists and turns, assassination plot, murder, politics, terrorism, investigation ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
'Sheba, Baby' (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sheba, a Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.
Style: detective, grindhouse, neo noir, independent film, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: kentucky, chicago, louisville kentucky, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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