Movies like The Firing Line

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The Firing Line (1988)
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The Firing Line (1988)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An American military advisor becomes disillusioned by the brutality and corruption of the Central American government which hired him. When his shift in sympathies becomes known, he's arrested and tortured but soon escapes, along with a beautiful American woman, in order to join the rebels.
Style: political, independent film, cult film
Plot: woman with a gun, war, tank, jungle, rape, violence, partisan, female nudity, torture, helicopter, traitor, rebellion, tunnel, rebel, shooting, war crime, machine gun, governor, disguise, burned alive, fictional war, skinny dipping, bazooka, missile, target practice ...
Place: central america
Keyword: american

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Most similar movies to The Firing Line

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, cult classic, macaroni combat and serious films with plots about explosion, shootout, machine gun, violence, helicopter, martial arts and gunfight mostly in Action, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Firing Line: Guns (1990), Phantom Raiders (1988), American Hunter (1988), Kill Crazy (1989), Fireback (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Guns (1990)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A South American gunrunner uses an island in Hawaii as his base of operations. A squad of beautiful government agents is sent to put him out of business.
Style: cult classic, independent film
Plot: spy, erotica, hitman, woman with a gun, katana, voyeur, female singer, gunrunner, female impersonator, helicopter, lust, voyeurism ...
Place: las vegas, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Phantom Raiders (1988)
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Deep within the steaming tropical jungles of Vietnam is a Viet Cong terrorist training camp, run by an ex-Green Beret, William Marshall. A roving photographer stumbles upon the hidden camp and starts to take pictures. He is caught and summarily ...
Plot: vietnam war, mission, war criminal, shootout, gun fu, special forces, murder, vietnam veteran, violence, father son relationship, spy, pistol ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
American Hunter (1988)
Genre: Action
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jake Carver needs to retrieve a microfilm containing information which would cause a Wall Street panic and an economic crisis for Western governments. Also seeking the microfilm is the villainous Adam who plans to sell the microfilm to the highest ...
Style: retro, microfilm
Plot: master warrior, blood, brutality, machine gun, death, violence, car chase, interrogation, torture, massacre, hospital, train ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Kill Crazy (1989)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Five Vietnam vets, on release from a mental hospital, think they're headed for a weekend camping trip. Instead they become target practice for an army of killers playing violent war games. It's a massacre until one of the vets becomes a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: monster, vietnam veteran, war game, target practice, rape, human prey, psychiatric hospital, revenge, bare chested male, shootout, heroes, mental institution ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Fireback (1983)
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack Kaplan is a US Army Soldier and Weapons Expert liberated by a "rescue team", he returns home to the United States only to find out that his wife Diane has been captured by infatuated gangster Duffy Collins. Kaplan embarks on a mission ...
Plot: ninja, revenge, kidnapping, special forces, sex in a hotel, shootout, katana, machine gun, bare breasts, female nudity, soldier, missing person ...
Place: the philippines, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Commando Leopard (1985)
Genre: Action
Country: Switzerland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a small group of guerillas fights against the violent ...
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: mercenary, machine gun, revolution, fictional war, helicopter, guerilla warfare, exploding airplane, shooting, resistance, wound, church, dictator ...
Place: south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Jungle Assault (1989)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, jungle warfare, female nudity, kidnapping, murder, terrorist, helicopter, jungle, attempted rape, bar fight, daughter, shootout ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Mercenary II: Thick & Thin (1998)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mercenary Captain "Hawk" is in Acion again to save a hostage. But he and his team are betrayed. Nothing is as it seems...
Style: suspense, christian film
Plot: shootout, machine gun, millionaire, violence, murder, betrayal, kidnapping, flashback, pistol, commando, ak 47, gunfight ...
Place: central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Lady Ramboh (1994)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Lady Ramboh finds her sister and her best friend on vacation, and the three of them spend the days having lots of fun. But the fun trip is ruined, when the girls are kidnapped and raped by the remaining traffickers. Lady Ramboh seeks revenge. She ...
Style: parody, crying
Plot: asian woman, drug smuggler, balloon, shopping, death, mob boss, hotel, corpse, swimming pool, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, pistol ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Black Cobra 3 (1990)
Genre: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shipment of American weapons is stolen in the Philippines. An American named Hawkins tries to find the weapons. Hawkins ends up dead. Chicago policeman Bob Malone is called in to investigate. Along with Interpol agent Greg Duncan, Malone travels the ...
Style: independent film, poliziottesco
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, urban, spy, buddy, shootout, bare breasts, violence, female nudity, african american, electrocution, one man army ...
Place: the philippines, manila philippines, chicago
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62%
Karate Raider (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jake Turner is back on a rescue mission to liberate an attractive female Drug Enforcement officer captured and held prisoner by an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia.
Plot: jungle, drug, special forces, shootout, heroes, master warrior, village, commando, karate, soldier, damsel in distress, blood ...
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Gone Dark (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Five years ago Jack faked his death. Now his little sister is hunting down his ex-partners who she thinks killed him. On top of that, the company send in the cleaners and everything gets bloody.
Plot: woman with a gun, bare breasts, female nudity, torture, murder, sex scene, nudity, bathtub
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Doublecross on Costa's Island (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu) is tracked down at his home halfway around the world. Through revenge and deception, from Sardinia to Beverly Hills, Costa ...
Plot: kidnapping, interpol, woman in a bikini, heroes, showdown, crime boss, violence, most dangerous game, rescue, wrestling, gangster, pistol ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Invasion Force (1990)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A film crew shooting a movie finds itself battling against terrorists trying to take over a city.
Style: splatter, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: woods, shootout, soldier, murder, violence, epic battle, gunfight, terrorism, paratrooper, fictional war, street shootout, film within a film ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Captured Alive (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Charter pilot Nick Baskin takes 5 strangers on a flight that is shot down. Taken by hillbillies in West Virginia, they are used to help transport toxic waste.
Plot: violence, helicopter, toxic waste, martial arts, female nudity, airport, hillbilly, airplane crash, plane crash, moonshine, shotgun, topless ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Dreaming the Reality (1991)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: MOON LEE and YUKARI OSHIMA have been trained as assassins by their adoptive father FOK. The pre-credits sequence details their training at a very early age, and clearly differentiates the personalities of the two girls/women; the vicious nature of ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, strong female lead, killer, mission, gun fu, slaughter, carnage, shootout, combat, loss of sister, female martial artist ...
Place: indonesia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Seven (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: woman with a gun, explosions, bodybuilder, female pilot, female nudity, assassin, exotic locale, skateboarder, swordsman, surfer, jungle, secret agent ...
Time: year 1979
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Cross Mission (1988)
Genre: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: General Romero, leader of a small Latin American country, is showing the UN how he's taking care of his country's drug problems by publicly burning crops of marijuana. As soon as the inspectors leave, however, Romero quickly returns to ...
Style: suspense, hispanic
Plot: collision, shootout, drug, combat, bar fight, martial arts, helicopter, villain turns good, gunfight, ak 47, marijuana, drug dealer ...
Place: south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Stabilizer (1986)
Genre: Action
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Peter Goldson, aka The Stabilizer, searches for drug smuggler Greg Rainmaker. Rainmaker killed Goldson's fiancee by kicking her with his spiked shoes, and now Goldson wants revenge. Meanwhile, Rainmaker has kidnapped the famous Professor ...
Plot: fight, murder, revenge, blood, violence, massacre, death, brutality, gunfight, martial artist, diving, bloodbath ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Bulletproof (1987)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, kidnapping, terrorist plot, danger, daring rescue, heroes, one man army, love interest, terrorist, rescue, tough heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Armadong Hudas (1998)
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines
Story: A Filipino action movie directed by Augusto Salvador which is a followup from the movie Barumbado(1990) .
Plot: fire, disguise, car chase, father son relationship, father and son, bazooka, sniper, fistfight, cemetery, falling from height, stabbed to death, shot in the head ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Demolition University (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: College students on a field trip encounter terrorists planning to poison the city's water supply.
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, college, poison, die hard, monster, hostage, veteran, confined, athlete's life, heroes, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Ultimate Weapon (1998)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Mercenaries, Ben & Vince, are assigned to destroy a stolen military arms cache held by a group of terrorists.
Style: cliffhanger, perverse, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ira, revenge, father daughter relationship, wrestling, wrestler, betrayal, military, soldier, bar fight, terrorism, tough heroes, weapon system ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Strike Commando (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 104 min.
Story: While operating behind enemy lines, Sgt. Mike Ransom learns of a Russian presence in North Vietnam. Ordered to obtain proof of this discovery, Ransom returns to enemy territory but is captured and subjected to a variety of tortures. Eventually he ...
Style: macaroni combat, surprise ending, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: vietnam war, one man army, mission, machine gun, blood, fire, spy, chase, pistol, massacre, escape, torture ...
Place: vietnam, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Trident Force (1988)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An outbreak of bombings, assassinations, and massacres by an extremist, Marxist terrorist group, alarms the international community who calls for help - the ultimate solution - the Trident Force.
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, mercenary, group, army lieutenant, murder of a family, murder, violence, terrorism, murder of family, pedophilia, child murder, dead children ...
Place: middle east, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Delta Force Commando (1987)
Genre: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the needless death of his wife and unborn child during a theft and raid on an army base (and it was really needless as the hoods just burst in and shoot up his apt for no reason) an ex-member of Delta Force and decorated war veteran Fred ...
Style: macaroni combat, cult classic, eighties
Plot: blaxploitation, cavalry, shootout, u.s. army, jungle, hand to hand combat, one against many, pregnancy, military base, martial arts, one man army, warrior ...
Place: nicaragua, central america, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Code Name: Wild Geese (1984)
Genre: Action
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.
Style: macaroni combat, cult classic
Plot: war, opium, shooting, dictator, army, river, church, boat, forest, helicopter, lake, priest ...
Place: asia, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Operation Cobra (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is held prisoner in their own house, when a summit conference is to be held in Nærum. The terrorist group has the plan of preventing this meeting and therefor capturing a family, and their house until the conference is held. Frederik, the ...
Plot: martial arts, terrorism, voyeur, shootout, nudity, car chase, boy, dog, doctor, teacher, father son relationship, missile ...
Place: denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Lethal Panther (1990)
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story revolves around the greedy nephew of a crime lord, who has his uncle bumped off so that he can take over the business. There are several silly plot threads which include his wish to also bump off the stepson of his dead uncle, and ...
Plot: kung fu, female assassin, machine gun, cia, revenge, female police officer, forgery, shootout, gang, cia agent, counterfeiter, martial arts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.
Style: independent film, suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: aerial combat, military, aviation, airplane, female bodybuilder, female fighter, world war two, female fight, violence, chase, woman with a gun, war on terror ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: peru, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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