Movies like Death Machines

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Death Machines (1976)
 4.1
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Death Machines (1976)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.
Style: cult classic, cult film
Plot: zombie, martial arts, hitman, assassin, invasion, violence, sword, crime boss, massacre, villainess, police station, nurse, fistfight, police detective, sniper, karate, escape, female nudity, murder, hospital, evil, swimming pool, airport, mind control, human monster ...

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Most similar movies to Death Machines

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, independent film, suspense and exciting films with plots about violence, murder, hitman, fistfight, pistol, shootout and gunfight mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Death Machines: Three the Hard Way (1974), Ninja (2009), Ninja Assassin (2009), The Protege (2021), Body Count (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Three the Hard Way (1974)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, grim, action thriller, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, black, african american, tough guy, vigilante, criminal activity, evil, genocide, racism, injustice, dishonesty ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, detroit, los angeles, chicago, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.5
 14K
Ninja (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.
Style: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, ninja master, ninja warrior, fight, sword fight, good versus evil, danger, master warrior, gang, female warrior, medieval ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, japan, new york, asia, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.3
 75K
Ninja Assassin (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the ...
Style: brutal, bloody, exciting, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, assassin, vengeance, kung fu, one man army, revenge, martial artist, one against many, ninja master, sword fight, hand to hand combat ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: china, osaka japan, berlin germany, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.1
 38K
The Protege (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, perverse, cult classic ...
Plot: female assassin, female killer, revenge, assassin, murder, vengeance, hitman, female warrior, drone, seduction, female protagonist, chase ...
Time: future, year 1991, 90s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: bucharest, vietnam, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Body Count (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A cold-blooded assassin is out for revenge against an elite corps of Special Crimes Agents headed by Eddie Cook and Vinnie Rizzo. When Cold blooded hit man Makoto escapes from prison, he and his sexy and lethal partner set out to execute the agents ...
Style: detective, independent film
Plot: tall woman, buddy cop, woman with a gun, die hard, subway, revenge, assassin, woman kills a man, katana, female bare legs, bare legs, strong female lead ...
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Contract to Kill (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team--seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp--he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, touching, suspense ...
Plot: aikido, martial arts, female warrior, conspiracy, cia agent, hitman, secret agent, woman fights a man, undercover, fbi agent, shootout, home invasion ...
Time: 2010s
Place: el paso texas, sonora, istanbul turkey, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
One in the Chamber (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes, violence spree, chases and races, murder, mob boss, gangster, corruption, mob hit, stalking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, prague, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.6
 13K
Triple Threat (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Thailand, China, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A crime syndicate places a hit on a billionaire's daughter, making her the target of an elite assassin squad. A small band of down-and-out mercenaries protects her, fighting tooth and nail to stop the assassins from reaching their target.
Style: suspense, brutal, intense, bloody, action thriller ...
Plot: martial arts, fight, mole, police, police shootout, danger, murder, chase, police station, fistfight, captivity, martial artist ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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I Am Wrath (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
Style: tense, exciting, suspense, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot: revenge, murder, police corruption, vengeance, danger, brutality, violence, paranoia, sociopath, gangster, vigilante, vigilantism ...
Place: ohio, columbus ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Assassin Club (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
Style: tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: assassin, killer, murder, hitman, race against time, cat versus mouse, struggle for survival, serial killer, problem, murderer, killings, agent ...
Time: 2020s
Place: paris france, rome italy, barcelona, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.8
 120K
Patriot Games (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Style: exciting, political, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, spy, hitman, revenge, espionage, cia, terrorist, assassination, conspiracy, ira, violence, secret agent ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., ireland, usa, north africa, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Tough and Deadly (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film
Plot: martial arts, wrestling, amnesia, buddy, mobster, drug, thug, bare chested male, shootout, fugitive, car crash, ex cop ...
Place: washington d.c., los angeles, langley virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.7
 22K
F/X (1986)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: corruption, murder, gangster, chase, manhunt, assassination, disguise, car chase, faked death, witness protection, mission of murder, frame up ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Foreigner (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This story is about a freelance agent (Seagal) who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, secret agent, martial arts, spy, good versus evil, heroes, on the run, race against time, danger, undercover, espionage, government agency ...
Place: france, europe, poland, germany, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.5
 171K
The Mechanic (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But ...
Style: clever, stylized, brutal, tense, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, assassin, chase, mentor, lone hero, loner, martial arts, tough guy, vengeance, revenge, deception, arms dealer ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, colombia, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 3.6
 2K
End of a Gun (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, detective ...
Plot: martial arts, rescue, brutality, betrayal, chase, violence, murder, aikido, police detective, death, security guard, henchman ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
S.W.A.T.: Under Siege (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a D.E.A. and S.W.A.T. cartel takedown ends in a shootout, S.W.A.T. Agent Travis Hall seizes a mysterious prisoner taking him into custody. Before long, the S.W.A.T. compound is under siege by wave-after-wave of assault teams attempting to ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, saga ...
Plot: corrupt cop, police, survival, death of friend, female warrior, chase, murder, brutality, spy, police chase, husband wife relationship, self mutilation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: seattle, washington d.c., washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Numbers Station (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, spy, secret service, survival, twists and turns, assassination, happy ending, adaptation, vengeance, betrayal, cia, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, new jersey, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Eliminators (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, agent, hitman, revenge, widower, daughter, pursuit, mistaken identity, manhunt, father daughter relationship, police, police officer ...
Time: 2010s
Place: washington d.c., england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.0
 6K
Kill Chain (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and ...
Style: exciting, brutal, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vengeance, hitman, hotel, murderer, twists and turns, brutality, friendship, organized crime, police corruption, corpse, cruelty, gangster ...
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Bloodfist VII: Manhunt (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Don "the Dragon" Wilson is a man pursued. Branded a cop-killer, he must fight simply to stay alive, and to clear his name... with the very police who framed him.
Style: independent film, suspense
Plot: manhunt, kickboxing, exploitation, pistol, blood, karate, martial artist, kickboxer, violence, kung fu, one against many, martial arts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.0
 9K
The Virtuoso (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A lonesome stranger with nerves of steel must track down and kill a rogue hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt. But the only information he's been given is a time and location where to find his quarry. No name. No description. Nothing.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: hitman, mysterious character, hunt down, murder, murder mystery, criminal, mission, secret identity, murderer, life risking, killer, lonely ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.6
 46K
The Mother (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: assassin, conspiracy, mother and daughter, daughter, fight, danger, female protagonist, killer, hitman, murderer, female killer, ex special forces ...
Time: 2020s
Place: cincinnati ohio, havana cuba, alaska, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Angelfist (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles police officer, comes to Manila to try and bring justice to ...
Style: erotic, independent film, psychotronic, remake of cult film
Plot: martial arts, female fight, female martial artist, female fighter, kickboxing, sex scene, exploitation, woman with a gun, women, making love, bare breasts, femme fatale ...
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.2
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Copshop (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: jail cell, hitman, police, assassin, black cop, female warrior, gunfight, arrest, prison, murder, rookie, small town ...
Time: future
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.9
 4K
Truck Turner (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when he's hired to capture sociopathic pimp Gator, he finds himself confronted by the most vicious killers in the ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, blaxploitation, bare breasts, exploitation, car chase, african american, tough guy, organized crime, truck, cowboy, hip hop, black ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.4
 14K
Crying Freeman (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in ...
Style: emotional, exciting, suspenseful, anime, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, martial arts, police investigation, assassin, danger, murder, rivalry, transformation, violence, revenge, redemption ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, china, san francisco, vancouver, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Cold Light of Day (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, espionage, government, life turned upside down, danger, family in danger, twists and turns, conspiracy, police chase, father son relationship, government agent, unlikely hero ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.0
 1K
Bloodmatch (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, intergender wrestling, fight, female fighter, kickass, female fight, revenge, sex scene, woman fights a man, kung fu, fistfight ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.4
 4K
A Good Man (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: martial arts, kidnapping, gangster, save the day, danger, gang, rivalry, gory, crime boss, organized crime, murder, hostage ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, bucharest, romania, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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