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Virumaandi (2004)
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Virumaandi (2004)
Original name: விருமாண்டி
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: A reporter researching the death penalty in India is recounted the story of a farm owner Virumandi whose role in a clan feud between Naicker and Kothalla Devar leads him to death row. As the story unfolds, there is a riot in the jail, and the only one who can get the reporter safely out of the prison is Virumandi.
Style: rough, serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, feel good, non-linear
Plot: prison riot, frame up, death sentence, death row, prison, false accusation, life is a bitch, journalism, interview, injustice, society, danger, social relations, uncover truth, forceful separation, vengeance, corruption, corporal punishment, memory, love, violence, journalist, massacre, temper, bullfighting ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, asia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and exciting films with plots about murder, deadly, vengeance, revenge, rivalry, bollywood and dishonesty mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Virumaandi: Aalavandhan (2001), Marked Man (1996), Framed (1975), Hey Ram (2000), Anger (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Aalavandhan (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Aalavandhan is a action and thriller movie. Vijay (Kamal Haasan) is the commander of an anti-terrorist squad. He gets engaged to Tejaswini (Raveena Tandon) who is pregnant with their child. Vijay's brother Nandu (also played by Haasan) is ...
Style: psychological thriller, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: psychopath, brother, violence, good versus evil, mental institution, brutality, murder, dual role, villain, serial killer, psycho, schizophrenia ...
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Marked Man (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: frame up, murder, wrestling, chase, law enforcement, dishonesty, chases and races, on the run, life is a bitch, confined, criminal heroes, wrongfully committed ...
Time: 90s
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37%
 6.4
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Framed (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, false accusation, political corruption, frame up, police corruption, dirty cop, explosions, nightclub, vengeance, violence, wrongful imprisonment, murder ...
Time: year 1975, 50s
Place: tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.9
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Hey Ram (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, patriotic, exciting ...
Plot: assassination, political unrest, religious intolerance, violence, muslim, danger, destiny, independence, husband wife relationship, revenge, religion, politics ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: india, pakistan, middle east, asia
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34%
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Anger (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Three friends from Delhi go missing in a small village - Jhanjhar, in Bihar. It's 2 months and there is no clue about their disappearance. The media and students movement demand action from the authorities. It's then that the government ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: police corruption, injustice, uncover truth, state affairs, police investigation, political corruption, medieval, partner, society, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new delhi, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.4
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The Uniform (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Just as he is preparing for his daughter's wedding, a veteran policeman is assigned to a crack team transporting a Pakistani secret agent to trial.
Style: exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, masala ...
Plot: terrorism, murder, muslim, dishonesty, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, rookie, heroes, small town, small town life ...
Place: asia, mumbai india, india
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33%
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Indian (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 178 min.
Story: DCP Raksekhar Azad (Raj) is an invincible cop with a great aim. He arrests a terrorist by the name of Khan. But Khan lands in a prison cell that looks cushier than the Buckingham Palace. However, this gets Raj promoted, and he is congratulated by ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, vigilantism, one man army, arrest, terrorist, dishonesty, partners against crime, confined, danger, frame up, tough heroes, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Family: Ties of Blood (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The story is on the concept of karma and bad deeds. It follows Viren Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), underworld don who rules over India. His son Abhir (Sushant Singh) is spoilt and believes he can do anything due to his father's power. When ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, kidnapping, vengeance, hostage, dishonesty, confined, danger, rivalry, vigilantism, dysfunctional family, chef, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india, thailand
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32%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Agneepath (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story: In a small Indian village Mandwa, Vijay Dinanath Chauhan is taught about the path of fire (Agneepath) by his principled father. His life is shattered when the evil drug lord Kancha Cheena hangs his father. Vijay leaves for Mumbai with his pregnant ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, powerful ...
Plot: revenge, vengeance, family relations, criminal heroes, drug lord, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, gangster, massacre, main character dies ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 21st century
Place: india, asia
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31%
Kaakha Kaakha (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Kaakha Kaakha is a 2003 Tamil crime thriller film written and directed by Gautham Menon. The film released to highly positive reviews in August 2003 and went on to become the first Biggest Blockbuster in Suriya's career, and was considered a ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, vengeance, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, corrupt law enforcer, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, murder, police officer, betrayal, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Thoongaavanam (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An undercover cop finds himself in a Catch-22 situation where he has to return the drugs he had stolen from a kingpin in exchange for his son. The bag containing the drug goes missing, and with both gangsters and cops on his tail, can he get out of ...
Style: tense, disturbing, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: love, thrill ride, blind ambition, criminal syndicate, escapades, death, gangster, obsession, friendship, vengeance, chase, drug dealer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Arrested (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Kishan Kumar Khanna is a well-rate film actor who falls head over heels in love with young, beautiful and attractive Anuradha Saxena much to the dislikeness of her gangster brother who wastes no time in entrapping Kishan in a web of lies and deceits ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: gangster, prison, escape, family relations, love and romance, on the run, criminal's revenge, rivalry, dishonesty, actor's life, artists and showbiz, confined ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india, asia
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30%
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Shool (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Police Inspector Samar Pratap Singh is transferred to Motihari, in the Indian state of Bihar, along with his wife, Manjari and a daughter. He is honest and diligent and these attributes sets him up against his superior - the District Superintendent ...
Style: dark, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
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Place: india, asia
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Hindustani (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Senapathy, a veteran freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.
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Plot: dual role, integration, superhero, independence, hindu, indians, patriotism, investigation, bribery, freedom fighter, society, vengeance ...
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Place: asia, india, singapore
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Anniyan (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
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Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: split personality, vigilante, lawyer, multiple personality disorder, alter ego, mental illness, unrequited love, punishment, vigilantism, anguish, love affair, psychiatrist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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29%
 8.0
 16K
Company (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, organized crime, gang war, criminal underworld, crime boss, gang, criminal syndicate, love and romance, rivalry, friendship, vengeance, underworld ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india, hong kong, asia, switzerland ...
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28%
Cheetah The Power Of One (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Nandu, an orphan, is a top-notch professional killer in town. He manoeuvres his operations with the help of his buddy. In one such operation, he falls into the eyes of the cops. While fleeing from the crime scene, he unintentionally becomes the ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot: assassination, on the run, hidden identity, dishonesty, assassination attempt, chases and races, frame up, accidental killing, gunfight, betrayal, police, exploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
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28%
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Vishwaroopam (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Vishwanathan, a Kathak dance teacher in New York, is in a rather happy marriage with Nirupama who is a nuclear oncologist. Nirupama is from a middle class family in Chennai, she marries Vishwanath (a dance master) to pursue her higher studies in the ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, masala ...
Plot: terrorist, undercover, suspicion, muslim, double life, working undercover, terrorist plot, secret, marriage, fbi agent, bomb, traitor ...
Time: 21st century
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28%
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Agneepath (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Vijay's father is brutally lynched by villagers after being framed by Kancha Cheena, and his family is forced to flee. The young Vijay vows revenge, and grows...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: revenge, murder, gangster, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, criminal heroes, redemption, gang, criminal's revenge, on the run, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, mumbai india
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27%
 4.6
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Kidnap (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A fortnight before her eighteenth birthday, Sonia goes missing. Her family receives a call informing them that she has been kidnapped and her estranged father, a US-based businessman, must now follow the kidnapper’s instructions to the letter if ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: stockholm syndrome, woman in danger, kidnapping, hostage, chase, vengeance, family relations, rivalry, rescue, danger, confined, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
An Innocent Man (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, police corruption, gang, frame up, gunfight, mistaken identity, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, prison life, prison escape ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: ACP Vishnu is sent on a mission to investigate and clean the underbelly of Goa. During his investigation, he uncovers a huge racket and discovers the involvement of various politicians.
Style: exciting, tense, entertaining, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, gangster, twists and turns, murder, drug bust, corruption, police, love, drug lord, rave party, couples, group of strangers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, clever ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: vengeance, prison, vigilantism, justice, investigation, master criminal, twists and turns, lawyer, fighting the system, rape and revenge, murder, revenge ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.5
 16K
Ghajini (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The film's story is around a rich business entrepreneur falling in love with an ad film actress. The entrepreneur and the actress fall in love, though she does not know that he is an entrepreneur. When she successfully saves a bunch of children ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, memory loss, revenge, tragic event, injustice, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, uncover truth, haunted by the past, danger, fall in love, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.4
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A Time to Die (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who framed her for drug possession and during her investigation, finds that not everything, or everyone, is what they appear to be.
Style: independent film, detective, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: frame up, police corruption, custody, murder, woman with a gun, photographer, parole, chases and races, witnessing a crime, society, rivalry, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
International Khiladi (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: International Khiladi is a Hindi action thriller film released in 1999. The film is directed by Umesh Mehra and It stars Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna in the lead roles. The film want to done moderately at the box office. News Reporter Payal ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: unrequited love, gangster, murder, rivalry, intergender wrestling, fall in love, torture, female reporter, death of brother, parachute, lie, deception ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.8
 1K
The Killer (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A cold-blooded contract killer hires the services of a cab driver for a full night. He forces the driver to go around Dubai as he keeps finishing off witnesses scheduled to testify against a gangster.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: hostage, hitman, danger, taxi driver, chase, murder, criminal, killings, confined, conspiracy, murder witness, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, dubai
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Naan Sigappu Manithan (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Indran suffers from narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that makes him fall asleep at the slightest excitement. He meets Meera and they fall in love but one night, they are attacked by unknown persons. Indran panics and goes into sleep, while Meera is ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: narcolepsy, vengeance, vigilantism, fall in love, rivalry, love and romance, disability, murder, danger, sleep disorder, revenge, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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