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Vettai (2012)
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Vettai (2012)
Original name: வேட்டை
Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The film revolves around two brothers, the elder being sensitive to violence and the younger being a jobless rogue, settled in Thoothukudi. After the death of their father, a police officer, the elder brother takes on the same job by request of the younger. The older brother rises to fame in his job by having his younger brother secretly punish suspects and save victims for him. This angers two of the village's biggest mob bosses, who begin to seek revenge on the elder brother. After getting severely beaten by them, the elder brother loses his fear and becomes physically stronger through training from his younger brother. How the brothers get back at two gangs and protect their families form the rest of the story. The film was released worldwide on 13 January 2012 to mixed reviews
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot: police, law enforcement, fighting crime, partner, family relations, vigilantism, self discovery, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, police detective, dishonesty, partners against crime, brother brother relationship, crime boss, impersonation, police station, death of father, investigation, criminal, brothers, justice, brutality, evil, good versus evil, life philosophy ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, asia
Keyword: partners, movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, realistic, tense and suspenseful films with plots about rivalry, law enforcement, danger, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance and violent content mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Vettai: Moving Targets (2004), Velayudham (2011), Jilla (2014), Race Gurram (2014), Gabbar is Back (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Moving Targets (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kit comes from a very fortunate family, with an outstanding police officer father When the family starts to break up, Man impulsively shot Kit's mother. After Kit's parents divorced, Kit viewed Man his father as an enemy. As an adult, he ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, heroic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, rivalry, fighting crime, partner, gangster, betrayal, partners against crime, fall in love, undercover, police corruption, working undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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Velayudham (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: An ordinary milkman is forced to become the fictional character Velayudham who takes on the scum of the earth.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, sexy ...
Plot: terrorism, vigilantism, corruption, escapades, fighting crime, superhero, danger, chase, lifesaver, journalist, rivalry, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Jilla (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: A cop decides to take on his godfather, who raised him from childhood, and make him realize the error of his ways.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: adopted son, gangster, police, rivalry, parents and children, dishonesty, law enforcement, escapades, danger, fighting crime, murder, godfather ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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Race Gurram (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Ram and Lakshman a.k.a Lucky are brothers. Ram is a sincere guy who grows up to become an honest cop. Lucky is a happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys life. Ram and Lucky have a tom and jerry kind of fight going on. Siva Reddy is a factionist who wants to ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, tense, light ...
Plot: rivalry, investigation, fall in love, chase, vengeance, murder, political corruption, brother brother relationship, genius, violent content, uninhibited rivalry, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Gabbar is Back (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A vigilante network taking out corrupt officials draws the notice of the authorities.
Style: humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious
Plot: corruption, vigilantism, investigation, abduction, confession of crime, police officer, law enforcement, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, dishonesty, criminal heroes, tragic event ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Dookudu (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A young policeman hunts down the men who caused the accident that put his politician father into a coma.
Style: humorous, exciting, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: fighting crime, drug lord, vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, disorder, against the rules, danger, exploitation, tragic love, coma, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
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Action Jackson (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India, Austria
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A man meets his lookalike, who's not just a killer of evil, but also a kind hearted man. Together, they team up to fight against a dreaded gangster.
Style: exciting, semi serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: fighting crime, law enforcement, rivalry, friends, chase, love, impersonation, sword, lust, fight, bad luck, lookalikes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india, bangkok thailand, asia
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100%
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If You Knew Me (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot: police, vengeance, police investigation, rivalry, fighting crime, self discovery, law enforcement, uninhibited rivalry, murder, danger, genius, villain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Black & White: The Dawn of Justice (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Police officer in the Southern Precinct, WU Ying-xiong, has been revered as a hero in the Harbor City ever since he stopped the terrorists on a Boeing 777 airplane and kept the city safe. Unfortunately, the peace is only temporary… Panic spreads ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: fighting crime, police officer, teamwork, partners against crime, police, police partner, criminal, police detective, police investigation, unlikely friendships
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29%
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Kaaki Sattai (2015)
Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Mathimaran, a police constable, wants to do something worthy of his job and stumbles upon an organ trafficking ring run by Durai that is exploiting immigrant labourers. But, with Durai's connections inside the force and in politics going deep, ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense
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Hit Team (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An undercover cop badly injured in a raid is blamed for the raid's failure and thrown out of the police department. His injuries result in his being paralyzed form the waist down, and doctors tell him that if he doesn't have an operation ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vengeance, fighting crime, gang, partners against crime, danger, rivalry, disability, partner, law enforcement, undercover, paralysis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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29%
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Sunstorm (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When The General is assassinated in the streets of San Juan, his four daughters are left embroiled in a scheme that leads all the way to the CIA and U.S. Treasury department. Now they must rely on each other to escape with their lives.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, assassination, cons and scams, vengeance, siblings relations, rivalry, race against time, dishonesty, law enforcement, unlikely partners, sister sister relationship, spy ...
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Wild 7 (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: To combat rising crime and terrorist activities in Japan, the Japanese National Police Agency authorizes the formation of a secret motorcycle unit known as the Wild 7. The motley group consists of reformed convicts - ranging from simple thugs to ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Kane Files: Life of Trial (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Scott Kane (Drew Fuller), a man with a checkered past is trying to live a clean life. When his son Owen falls ill, Kane finds his only option is to turn to Daniel Morgan (William Atherton), the local kingpin of the criminal underworld. Morgan offers ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, intense, suspense ...
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Arrambam (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
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Eye for an Eye (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
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Duration: 101 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Vikram Vedha (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Twin Daggers (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A shady Los Angeles martial arts assassin is hired by a beautiful woman to avenge the death of her parents, who were killed by her evil twin sister. But when the hit man tracks down his target, he finds himself strangely attracted to her. Trapped ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: hitman, martial arts, vengeance, moral dilemma, fall in love, danger, frame up, vigilantism, rivalry, undercover, secret agent, battles ...
Time: 1930s
Place: china, usa, asia, los angeles
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IDI: Inspector Dawood Ibrahim (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story follows Dawood, who wishes to don the cop uniform right from his childhood. He grows up to be a straight-laced, passionate policeman, who is sent off to a sleepy border suburb Kollanahalli for his first posting. An unexpected turn of ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, humorous, exciting, suspense ...
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Place: india
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Misfire (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
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Grandmaster (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, suspense thriller ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
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Vigilante (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Luke is viciously attacked and his fiancée is raped and murdered, he pledges to train himself in deadly hand to hand combat and use it against any wrong doers who dare to cross his path.
Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: martial arts, murder, vengeance, rivalry, assassination, vigilantism, dishonesty, good versus evil, police corruption, frame up, violence, vigilante ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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22%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: danger, rescue, confined, ultimatum, abduction, uncover truth, rivalry, kidnapping, sexual content, chases and races, profanity, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Sura (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
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Style: serious, captivating, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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 3.0
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Blind Eye (2007)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Action thriller about a brotherhood of friends torn apart by a dangerous secret and an even deadlier conspiracy. When ex-cop Nick Browning is called by his estranged wife (Tara Goudreau), needing his help to find their missing daughter, he comes ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
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Time: 21st century
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Vinaya Vidheya Rama (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Ram is one among the five orphaned boys in Visakhapatnam, adopted by a doctor who ensures them a roof to live under, with dignity. Ram goes to any extent to protect his family and he's a handful for the baddie to handle in a time of crisis. How ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, exciting, tense, suspense
Plot: partners against crime, chase, fighting crime, human trafficking, organized crime, escapades, brutality, life is a bitch, youth, friendship, danger, society ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Open City (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jo Dae-yeong is a police officer investigating a pickpocket ring with ties to the Yakuza. One day he rescues Baek Jang-mi from danger, only to discover that she is the boss of the gang he has been tracking.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Serious Shock! Yes Madam! (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Though policewoman Hsie Wan-chin (Cynthia Yang Li-ching) is merrily planning for her wedding with fellow cop Wilson Tsiang (Lawrence Ng Kai-wah), he is having an illicit affair with her best friend, May (Moon Lee). When Wilson tries to break things ...
Style: fast, exciting, rough, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.6
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Ambition (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Elaan (Hindi: एलान, translation: Manifesto) is a 2005 Bollywood action thriller film. Elaan is a mission film about five characters and their plan against one man. Produced by Ganesh Jain and Ratan Jain and directed by Vikram Bhatt, the film ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Sword Identity (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: exciting, realistic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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