Movies like Thunder II

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Thunder II (1987)
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Thunder II (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of the brutal prison camp and takes bloody revenge. However he cannot sufficiently protect his pregnant wife.
Style: cult classic
Plot: native american, dirty cop, cop, prison, martial arts, combat, prison escape, revenge, fight, biker, drug cartel, police officer, police, violence, motorcycle, desert, prisoner, death, murder, car chase, racism, gunfight, transvestite, drug dealer, helicopter ...
Place: arizona, new mexico

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult classic, realistic, suspenseful and serious films with plots about violence, martial arts, blood, fistfight, blood splatter, shootout and murder mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Thunder II: The Manhunt (1984), Thunder (1983), Thunder III (1988), Giant Killer (1984), The Big Racket (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Manhunt (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. Unable to prove ownership, the young man is then sentenced ...
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, partner, prison life, frame up, false accusation, life is a bitch, heroes, protagonist as suspect, manhunt, fugitives, confined, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 595
Thunder (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A native America named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral burial ground is being destroyed by construction workers. He tries to put a stop to it, but the law is not only not on his side, but he is banished from town, beaten up, and ...
Style: cult classic
Plot: car chase, redsploitation, rambo, gun fu, high speed chase, car crash, nudity, female hostage, carnage, automobile, canyon, radio dj ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 4.3
 210
Thunder III (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: They took his wife... but he's still Walking Tall, they drew First Blood, but he's gonna fight back like Billy Jack.
Style: cult classic
Plot: native american, dirty cop, racism, small town sheriff, sheriff, bait, navajo indian, rambo, new mexico desert, bare breasts, car chase, kidnapping ...
Place: arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.3
 202
Giant Killer (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An Arizona policeman (Bo Svenson) and his pilot buddy (Fred Williamson) discover a scheme to rob Las Vegas slot machines by computer.
Style: cult classic, poliziottesco
Plot: car chase, shootout, violence, police officer killed, police chase, money, fistfight, hand to hand combat, martial arts, casino, maverick cop, gunfight ...
Place: las vegas, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Big Racket (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, grindhouse
Plot: rape, police, police officer, revenge, organized crime, shootout, suicide, fight, gunfight, machine gun, violent, dirty harry ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 748
Bounty Tracker (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Almost the whole staff of a tax consultant office is slayed by a team of professional killers, only Paul Damone can escape. He didn't know that his partner used to wash gangster Louis Sarazin's money and had to testify as chief witness ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police protection, revenge, one man army, vigilante, gangster, murder, master warrior, heroes, bounty hunter, cop, killer ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 314
Cop Killers (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, poliziottesco, tripping, surprise ending ...
Plot: exploitation, murder, drug dealer, anti hero, crime gone awry, cruelty, shootout, nihilism, cocaine, cop killer, hostage, violence ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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Island of Fire (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.
Style: action adventure, cult classic, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, gunfight, jail, prison, karate, conspiracy, murder, heroes, undercover, kung fu, guard dog, prison violence ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Tough Ones (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, car chase, chase, psychopath, gang rape, rape, violent content, law enforcement, serial killer, vigilantism, danger, fighting crime ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 251
Touch and Go (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A clumsy, easy-going but tough restaurant chef witnesses a murder of a cop. This leads him to a world of trouble, as the killer seeks to silence him. Luckily, the vengeful partner of the dead cop is there to help him.
Style: fast, exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican standoff, martial arts, chase, realism, humble, criminal heroes, danger, criminal's revenge, lone wolves, law enforcement, on the run, one man army ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.7
 101
Sworn Brothers (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Superstar Andy Lau and Cheung Kwok Keung are heroic bloodshed brothers in the riveting triad saga Sworn Brothers! Lau (Andy Lau) is a fast-rising enforcer with the triads, but beneath his "bad" exterior is the sworn brother of Cheung ...
Style: heroic, poliziottesco
Plot: heroic bloodshed, shootout, gun fu, drug, police officer killed, hostage, police station, brutality, hospital, violence, courtroom, blood ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 18K
Convoy (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
Style: road movie, surprise ending, exciting, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: truck, car chase, chase, on the road, police, rebellion, carsploitation, road trip, car, trucker, classic car, redneck ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, albuquerque new mexico, arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Weapons of Death (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Napoli spara! (internationally released as Weapons of Death and Naples shoots) is a "poliziottesco" film directed by Mario Caiano in 1977. It is an unofficial sequel of Napoli violenta, of which reprises the character of Gennarino (still ...
Style: poliziottesco, hood, perverse
Plot: police, gangster, police officer, gang, ghetto, mafia, justice, car crash, shootout, gun fu, murder, corruption ...
Time: 70s
Place: napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.4
 945
Rage of Honor (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Singapore.
Style: retro, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, medieval, mixed martial arts, drug lord, shootout, explosions, law enforcement, undercover, dishonesty, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 153
Deadly Strike (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The new police chief (Bruce Li) arrives in a small provincial town. He's been charged with bringing a dangerous gang to justice. But within seconds, the chief provokes a showdown with his lazy deputies. Realizing that they are not up to the ...
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, jail, gangster, criminal, massacre, murder, violence, brutality, blood, showdown, jeet kune do ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.8
 400
Project: Kill (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: spy, police, villain as protagonist, shootout, bare chested male, gun fu, kung fu, gunfight, main character dies, home invasion, tragic villain, killer ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Colt 38 Special Squad (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When his wife is kidnapped by a local crime lord, a determined police captain forms his own squad of rogue cops, each of whom wields a .38 Colt revolver. The mission, of course, is to rescue the captain's wife -- but the conflict soon explodes ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, criminal underworld, police officer, hostage, police corruption, vigilante, child kidnapping, organized crime, child hostage, exploitation, combat, police raid ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Fist of Legend (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in ...
Style: harsh, intense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, sword fight, violence, martial artist, fight scenes, fight, brutality, samurai, wuxia, master warrior, kung fu classic ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.2
 7K
Billy Jack (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
Style: independent film, grindhouse, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: hippie, rape, vigilante, counterculture, vigilantism, small town, swing, kung fu, revenge, culture clash, violence, tough guy ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: new mexico, vietnam, usa, asia, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Striker (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that ...
Style: cult classic, independent film
Plot: truck driver, shootout, right wing, shot in the groin, gun fu, rambo, bare chested male, combat, torture, interrogation, violence, kickboxing ...
Place: nicaragua, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Legacy of Rage (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brandon plays Brandon Ma, a regular working Joe who holds down two jobs, so he can support his girlfriend May and his dream of owning a motorcycle. Brandon's best friend is Michael, an ambitious and murderous dope peddler. Michael covets May ...
Style: heroic, cult classic, crime drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, heroic bloodshed, gun fu, fight club, triad, revenge, gangster, heroes, friends, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Last Man Standing (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police corruption, martial arts, chase, partner, bank, master criminal, law enforcement, police investigation, vengeance, friendship, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Walk on Fire (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sergeant Kwok Wah (Andy Lau) and Ho Lung (Ray Lui) are both colleagues and best friends. Ho Lung has developed hatred with a gang leader Dick. Dick sends Hung (Cherie Chung) as a bait to kill Ho Lung. Swore to take revenge for his best friend, Kwok ...
Style: crime drama, heroic, poliziottesco
Plot: heroic bloodshed, kung fu, triad, gun fu, violence, police officer killed, brutality, blood, police, fistfight, gunfight, martial arts ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
In the Line of Duty (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Michelle Yip of the Hong Kong police is a mild-mannered Kung Fu expert; Michael Wong from air security is happy-go-lucky, stuck on himself, constantly talking, and smitten by her; Yamamoto is quiet, hard-boiled, leaving the Tokyo police to spend ...
Style: perverse, hood, cult classic, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: martial arts, female martial artist, kung fu, kickass women, terrorism, police shootout, police, female fight, gang, hot chick, woman with a gun, fight ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Crippled Masters (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn to combine their martial arts skills and seek revenge ...
Style: cult classic, disturbing, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, revenge, handicapped, cripple, exploitation, heroes, disability, misfit, confined, master criminal, danger ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: biker, motorcycle, redneck, carsploitation, bike, motorcycle gang, smuggler, photography, police officer, beer, machine gun, car chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
 1K
Tiger Cage (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Something fishy is going on in the anti-Drug Trafficking Unit of the HK Police, and only a few honest cops know that the corruption goes all the way to the top. However, they must prove their case quickly, and by unconventional means, after they are ...
Style: bloody, cult classic, heroic, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic bloodshed, kung fu, police officer, fight club, police, gangster, betrayal, police corruption, frame up, partner, police detective ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.7
 105
The Jesus Trip (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco (Robert Porter) and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent. A highway patrolman (Billy 'Green' Bush) hunts down the gang after they kidnap a nun, Sister ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: biker, bike, motorcycle, nun, motorcycle gang, drug, arizona desert, male female relationship, beer, kidnapping, pursuit, robbery ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
New Fists of Fury (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan, to stay with their grandfather who runs a Kung-Fu school there. However, the master of a Japanese Kung-Fu school in Taiwan has designs on bringing all other ...
Style: action adventure, cult classic, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, heroes, master warrior, wartime life, school, murder, heroic mission, against the odds, tough heroes ...
Place: taiwan, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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