Movies like The Runner 1992

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The Runner (1992)
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The Runner (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of journalists used to covering international war zones travel to a remote island on a no holds barred survival training course which swiftly gets out of hand under the tuition of two unhinged ex-military types. Running in the background, we hear news of impending nuclear war, which further affects the behaviour of the crazy 'tutors'.
Style: independent film
Plot: post apocalypse, island, violence, cave, helicopter, shootout, killing, group, murder, gunfight, explosion, bullet, gun, gunshot, shoot out

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Most similar movies to The Runner

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about explosion, shootout, violence, gun, death, murder and blood mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Runner: Five (2016), Bravo (1998), Ultimate Target (2000), Hired to Kill (1990), Asian Cop: High Voltage (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Five (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Five military men from from different branches of the armed forces find themselves mysteriously locked in a room with four bullets and one gun and no clues.
Plot: cigarette smoking, secret, military, clock, bullet, gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.1
 55
Bravo (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mexico's new president vows to attack the drug trade; in retaliation, his wife has already been assassinated.
Style: independent film
Plot: siege, mariachi, sex, female nudity, hostage, violence, shootout, explosion
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Ultimate Target (2000)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A double-dealing member of an elite group of hit men becomes the ultimate target when his organization discovers his deceit.
Style: crime drama, suspense, independent film
Plot: triad, shootout, villain as protagonist, group, hitman, martial arts, kickboxer, gunfight, hand to hand combat, shooting, violence, pistol ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Hired to Kill (1990)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader
Style: independent film, surprise ending
Plot: prison escape, female agent, lesbian subtext, pretending to be gay, double agent, gay slur, female nudity, model, swimming pool, cave, fashion photographer, bare breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Terminate with Extreme Prejudice (1982)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many ...
Style: eurospy
Plot: spy, murder of a priest, killing, spying, helicopter, espionage, secret agent, female nudity, shooting, cia, ambush, sexploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Asian Cop: High Voltage (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Donnie Yen is back with a vengeance in this electric action thriller. The star of Fist of Fury, Hero and Highlander goes up against Hong Kong's deadliest gangsters in a no holds barred duel to the death. Donnie Yen has proven to be one of ...
Plot: martial arts, cop, combat, blood, death, brutality, violence, kung fu, bloodbath, gunfight, fight, karate ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Killer's Romance (1990)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A triad assassin is sent to kill a female witness to a murder only to fall in love with her instead.
Style: heroic, bloody
Plot: heroic bloodshed, katana, handgun, martial arts, church, hitman, mansion, gang war, assassination, sword fight, loyalty, female martial artist ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.3
 1K
The Hit List (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A hit man's boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: killer, assassin, shakespeare, criminal, danger, drug dealing, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, assassination, widow, bare chested male ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Lock 'n' Load (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Vietnam vet has nightmares about murder and zombies, and then discovers that he and other vets have been programmed to commit crimes and then kill themselves afterwards so they can't be traced. He investigates to try to find out who is ...
Style: splatter, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: vietnam veteran, shootout, police, betrayal, hospital, robbery, violence, murder, assassin, brainwashing, explosion
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Blood on the Badge (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A cop goes to a small Texas town to find out who murdered his former partner there.
Style: neo western, independent film
Plot: revenge, terrorism, shootout, violence, police, murder mystery, terrorist, police shootout, coma, street shootout
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.5
 33
Baja Run (1996)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Japanese woman and a naive American drug courier witness a L.A. drug-deal-gone-wrong shootout, and flee into Mexico with the drug money while being chased by two hit men.
Style: independent film
Plot: woman with a gun, murder, strong female character, chase, sex, cocaine, drug dealer, drug, nudity, shootout, gun
Place: mexico, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Enemies Closer (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, reluctant partners, survival, violence, rivalry, danger, woods, partner, illegal drugs, betrayal, gang, strong violent content ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
47%
 4.3
 3K
Sacrifice (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister in his care.
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, law enforcement, police detective, danger, hopes, confined, tough heroes, cop, religion, child in peril, profanity, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
43%
 7.2
 15
May Sayad (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Story: A Filipino action movie directed by Ronnie Ricketts.
Plot: martial arts, lethal injection, electrocuted, frame up, riot, fistfight, crazy, car rollover, mental institution, blood, torture, gangster ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.4
 61K
The Beekeeper (2024)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: One man’s campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating
Plot: conspiracy, male protagonist, revenge, vengeance, fbi agent, criminal's revenge, secret organization, murderer, hitman, call center, bloody violence, scam ...
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.2
 13K
Vivegam (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A group of counter-terrorism agents are brought in to track down a man who was once the head of their squad, and is believed to have gone rogue.
Style: intense, fast paced
Plot: interpol, plutonium, superstar, sword, nuclear, macho man, gunfight, nunchaku, frame up, conspiracy, fire, threat ...
Place: russia, serbia, india, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 4.3
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Into the Sun (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, law enforcement, martial arts, assassination, fbi, gangster, master criminal, undercover, race against time, danger, katana, martial artist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, thailand, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.8
 200
Killer Angels (1989)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three female cops form a special unit and get their main witness out of the clutches of a gang. The witness holds the key to Chu Chung Sing, a gang-lord who runs a night-club. They will have to face a ruthless but sentimental killer.
Style: bloody, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, strong female lead, female martial artist, cop witness relations, gory, car chase, gang, chase, chases and races, law enforcement, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.6
 163
Dead End City (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The government's new urban renewal policy results in street gangs fighting for control of the inner cities. While most of the residents flee, one factory owner determines to fight the gangs for his property.
Style: hood, independent film, surprise ending
Plot: gang, gangster, ghetto, street gang, vigilante, death, woman killed, prostitute, rape, sadistic psychopath, psychopath, motorcycle gang ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Warriors of the Apocalypse (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After WWIII has devastated America, a small band of female warriors attempt to survive long enough to make it to the last city left. The problem is dictator Rollins doesn't want her city overpopulating so she sends out her team of mercenaries ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, surprise ending
Plot: post apocalypse, guts, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, intergender wrestling, woman with a gun, death, blood, female nudity, chase, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
International Guerillas (1990)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 167 min.
Story: The Islamic world is in crisis with the publication of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Rushdie wants Pakistan, the stronghold of Islam, to fall. Determined to foil his plans are a trio of brothers who form a holy army to destroy Rushdie. ...
Style: weird
Plot: terrorism, shootout, criminal, conspiracy, man with glasses, kidnapping, deception, death, person on fire, machine gun, disguise, airport ...
Place: pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Orion's Belt (1985)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/smugglers/tourist guides Tom, Lars and Sverre discover the Soviet Union aren't just mining for coal in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This ...
Style: retro, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, winter, boat, landscape, society, working class, iron curtain, conspiracy, anti hero, military base, captivity ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, russia, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.5
 235K
The Gray Man (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, UK, Canada, Thailand, Denmark, France, Cambodia, Vietnam
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller ...
Plot: agent, cia, assassin, gunfight, hitman, fight, murder, mission, female warrior, killer, murderer, cia agent ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2003, 2020s
Place: prague, central europe, europe, thailand, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Escape from the Bronx (1983)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.
Style: grindhouse, apocalyptic, grim, cult classic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, kidnapping, gang, gunfight, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, biker, motorcycle, wasteland, underground, epidemic, shootout ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Ballistic Kiss (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Cat is a killer-for-hire intends on finding his nemesis wesley for revenge. When cat finally meets his long-awaited opponent a chain of events led to cat holding a policewoman hostage. They gradually begina a precarious relationship that may or may ...
Style: heroic
Plot: heroic bloodshed, hitman, killer, contract killer, shootout, cemetery, violent, combat, martial artist, fight, diving, gunfight ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ...
Style: political, independent film
Plot: woman with a gun, burned alive, governor, violence, female nudity, torture, rape, machine gun, disguise, partisan, war, shock treatment ...
Place: central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 448
Convoy Busters (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, police officer, shootout, revenge, torture, prostitute, corruption, interrogation, pistol, person on fire, blood, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Another Meltdown (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A patriotic Chinese cop is reposted to fictional East European country Lavernia as punishment for ignoring orders during a plane hijack operation. There he encounters his ex-girlfriend, who fled to Lavernia after Tiananmen Square. Their paths soon ...
Style: fast, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, die hard, martial arts, best friend, criminal heroes, undercover, partners against crime, confined, chases and races, daring rescue, law enforcement, state affairs ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: china, europe, hong kong, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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