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The Bouncer (2018)
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Original name: Lukas
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A former bodyguard who chained small security jobs in nightclubs to raise his 8-year-old daughter finds himself forced to collaborate with the police. His mission: infiltrate the organization of a dangerous Flemish gang leader.
Style:
suspense, exciting, disturbing, realistic, cult classic
Plot:
bouncer, father daughter relationship, widower, bodyguard, fight, betrayal, loss of job, nightclub, danger, interpol, police, single father, blood, basement, fired from the job, teenager, mafia, undercover, techno, security, martial artist, mobster, horse, investigation, gangster ...
Place:
belgium, brussels
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Most similar movies to The Bouncer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspense, serious and realistic films with plots about gangster, violence, danger, vengeance, murder, fight and rivalry mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Bouncer: Assassination Games (2011), The Number One Girl (2006), Black Water (2018), Merantau Warrior (2009), Paradise Beach (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both ...
Style:
exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, hitman, kickboxing, assassin, sniper, gang rape, fight, assassination, chases and races, tough heroes, martial arts, tough guy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bucharest, ukraine, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Joey (Scheina) is a big Hollywood action star and a martial arts champ. When he gets invited to be a celebrity judge at friend and mobster Molnar's (Jones) request he falls for Molnar's Number One Girl. She is strictly off limits and so ...
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, forbidden love, contests and competitions, nightclub, rivalry, gangster, ambition, vengeance, underground fighting, fall in love, save the day, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
martial arts, submarine, female warrior, murder, violence, martial artist, danger, betrayal, brutality, blood, dishonesty, espionage ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pentagon, canada
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, violence, fight, journey, on the run, heroes, danger, rescue, rivalry, life is a bitch, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, indonesia
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A team of former robbers arrived at Paradise: Phuket, southern Thailand. Now traders, they are happy days. Until the day when the devil arrives: Mehdi, sentenced to 15 years in prison during the robbery, comes to recover his share of the cake.
Style:
perverse, disturbing, exciting, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
businessman, gangster, problem solving, friends, traitor, criminal heroes, graphic violence, betrayal, heist, murder, workplace problem, business ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
It’s bad men versus worse men as thieves face off against dealers in this super slick French heist thriller from the director of Chrysalis and The Assault.
Style:
suspense, perverse, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
heist, brother brother relationship, bank robbery, armed robbery, bank robber, robbery, gang of thieves, murder, violence, death, criminal heroes, mafia ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Transferred home after a traumatizing combat mission, a highly trained French soldier uses her lethal skills to hunt down the man who hurt her sister.
Style:
erotic, suspense, captivating, tense, action thriller ...
Plot:
female vigilante, sister, vengeance, female protagonist, revenge, rape, female soldier, female warrior, soldier, vigilantism, war veteran, army ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
syria, marseille, paris france, nice france, france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
After learning the art of muay thai fighting from skilled masters, small town friends Piak (Akara Amarttayakul) and Phao (Thawatchai Phanpakdee) move their passion to Bangkok, where they become active in underground activities that put what ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial artist, muay thai, martial arts, friendship, gang, gangster, one man army, master warrior, fight, boxing, fighter, violent content ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
asia, thailand
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, Taggart is sent in -- posing as ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, spiritual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, environment, toxic, small town, betrayal, investigation, environmentalism, one man army, danger, good versus evil, dishonesty, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
kentucky, usa, appalachia, texas
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ex-CIA agent is hired to protect the daughter of a rich American family.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, bodyguard, haunted by the past, daring rescue, vengeance, rescue, danger, confined, lone wolves, heroes, missing child, revenge ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rival gangs seek out millions of dollars hidden inside a luxury condominium that's scheduled to be demolished, but first they have to deal with the demolition prep crewman who found the loot first.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gangster, gang, danger, friendship, murder, friends, death, violence, vengeance, rivalry, criminal underworld, gang war ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, birmingham alabama, alaska
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, art, fight, car chase, criminal heroes, brutality, revenge, mob boss, crime boss, modern art, death of father ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york, asia, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
Style:
harsh, stylized, brutal, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, prison, prison escape, prison violence, fight to the death, warden, fight, fighter, brutality, murder, prison rape ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
russia, california, ireland, latin america, new jersey ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car theft, gangster, robbery, family relations, mafia, revenge, starting over, hopes, gang, rivalry, dishonesty, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, riviera, south of france, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A devastated husband vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife’s death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
revenge, father daughter relationship, female warrior, daughter, justice, fight, private investigation, loss of wife, loss of mother, murder, investigation, family relations ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
45%
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, serious, exciting, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, showdown, betrayal, murder, moral dilemma, death, police, danger, police investigation, law enforcement, organized crime, brutality ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
'A New Beginning' focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, family relations, danger, gangster, rivalry, bodyguard, hitman, rescue, betrayal, chinese mafia, triad, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, asia, europe, hong kong
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Gurgaon is the most modern boom-town of "India Shining", the new frontier to be conquered by those who understand real estate. This city rose from a small town to a boom town satellite city in just fifteen years. However, the law and order ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, captivating, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, gangster, police investigation, working undercover, fighting crime, law enforcement, organized crime, presumed dead, spy, undercover police officer, erotica, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years ...
Style:
tense, realistic, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, violence, twists and turns, gang, rivalry, organized crime, police corruption, investigation, dirty cop, justice, nudity, police ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
police detective, mafia, vengeance, fighting crime, rivalry, danger, murder, law enforcement, gangster, mob boss, violent content, partner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, antwerp, europe, albania
Similarity:
44%
19K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a ...
Style:
surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece
Plot:
violence, father son relationship, gangster, brutality, mafia, revenge, friendship, fight, gang, mob boss, vengeance, blood ...
Time:
2020s, 90s
Place:
india
Similarity:
44%
16K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, wuxia, violence, culture clash, danger, heroes, starting over, gangster, asian history, kung fu master, twists and turns, society ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1917
Place:
china, east asia, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnap the team's owner and ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, intense, exciting
Plot:
undercover, terrorism, fight, machismo, one against many, rescue mission, heroes, daring rescue, tough heroes, showdown, one man army, danger ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, one against many, one man army, heroes, athlete's life, tough heroes, vengeance, rivalry, gang, gunfight, corrupt cop, violence ...
Place:
british columbia, middle east, iraq, afghanistan
Similarity:
43%
496
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drug lord, death, vengeance, murder, danger, gangster, battles, chase, obsession, violence, criminal, drug dealer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
179
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Germany in the not-too-distant future: The borders are closed, refugees are collected in camps and turned away or accepted. The mood is charged, a police detachment is responsible for keeping the crowd in check. Volt is one of the cops. He ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
police, civil unrest, ethical dilemma, dystopia, violence, refugee, guilt, police brutality, social commentary, xenophobia, moral ambiguity, dystopian future ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
germany
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, police corruption, snitch, undercover, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mossad, terrorism, bodyguard, espionage, undercover, female assassin, murder of a nude woman, female warrior, secret agent, assassination, assassination attempt, vengeance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new york, jerusalem, austria, zurich switzerland, tel aviv israel ...
Similarity:
43%
63
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
GRIMY is the story of an undercover officer named Rogers. (Maurandis Berger) He is the only one who can get in close enough to these criminals that terrorize neighborhoods with drugs and violence. He is often assigned to neighborhoods that he grew ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, dark, intense ...
Plot:
undercover, gang, police, drug, rivalry, outlaw, drug dealer, danger, undercover agent, criminal, real life, informant ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco, Spain, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A whiplash thriller in the lean, mean TAKEN tradition from Howard J. Ford, Director/Co-Writer, of the past FrightFest favourites THE DEAD and THE DEAD 2: INDIA. Former FBI agent, now single mother Lisa Brennan, takes a holiday to escape an unhappy ...
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, independent film
Plot:
organized crime, kidnapping, rescue, on the run, mother daughter relationship, conspiracy, one against many, race against time, female protagonist, betrayal, corruption, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco
Similarity:
43%
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