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Man of Vendetta (2010)
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Original name: 파괴된 사나이
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
One day, Hye Lin, the five-year old daughter of a devoted pastor, Joo Young Soo, is kidnapped. Pastor Joo, who has a rock solid faith in God at this time, prays wholeheartedly for her safe comeback, but she does not return. Eight years later, Joo Young Soo, who now does not believe in God and leads a completely secular life, receives a call. Hye Lin is still alive and is with the kidnapper. Joo Young Soo’s resolute attempt to rescue his daughter begins...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, emotional, crime thriller, dark, intense, grim ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, rescue, chase, society, starting over, clergy, father daughter relationship, family tragedy, uncover truth, danger, revenge, desperation, grief, determination, loss of faith, obsession, corruption, vigilante, pastor, redemption, corrupt businessman, moral ambiguity, investigation, violence ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
south korea, seoul
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Most similar movies to Man of Vendetta
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, noir and suspense films with plots about revenge, moral ambiguity, investigation, vigilante, urban, corruption and violent mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Man of Vendetta: Urgency (2011), Traffickers (2012), Monster (2014), Unbound (2020), Crosshairs (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Returning home after difficult negotiations with potential customers, an employee of the Los Angeles-based pharmaceutical company, Tony West realizes that his wife is captured, while its unit and return home unscathed criminals require $ 50,000 in ...
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serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
danger, rescue, ultimatum, confined, abduction, uncover truth, rivalry, kidnapping, chases and races, nudity, profanity, sexual content ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his best friend dies in an unexpected accident, black market dealer Young-gyu decides to wash his hands off his illegal activities and start a new life with his girlfriend Yu-ri. But his dream stalls when he learns that Yu-ri needs money for ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, danger, nothing goes right, kidnapping, ship, gang, disorder, organ trafficking, betrayal, organized crime, chase, cat and mouse ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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57%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Bok-Soon (Kim Go-eun-I) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Bok-Soon may not be the brightest girl but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in uncontrollable rage. She’s infamously known as the “psycho ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
serial killer, vengeance, psychopath, police investigation, murder, rivalry, female protagonist, revenge, rage, vigilante, loss of family, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Julius Fonteneau has decided to take the law into his own hands after his daughter has gone missing. His only friend supports him while his wife resents him and the police are growing suspicious of his intentions. He must determine right from wrong ...
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, kidnapping, vigilante, murder, violence, husband wife relationship, psycho killer, blood, deception, moral dilemma, missing child, grief ...
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hired to enact revenge on a man who savagely beat a beautiful Russian débutant, Jack Verlaine is pressed between his newly acquired job and a persistent man named, Brill, who offers him a chance to advance higher in his seedy career. But when an ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
hitman, assassin, conspiracy, sex trafficking, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, estrangement, identity, violence, revenge, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
"blackhats" is about a reformed, hot-tempered bounty hunter, whom, finds his new harmonious life as a Fugitive Recovery Agent threatened, when he must track down a group of cyber hackers before they are assassinated by a rival bounty ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
bounty hunter, going straight, rivalry, chase, assassination attempt, danger, chases and races, starting over, uninhibited rivalry, hacker, manhunt, cybersecurity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Driven by the desire to avenge his mother, a former gangster turned lawyer uses both his fists and the loopholes in law to fight against those with absolute power.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, investigation, revenge, justice, gangster, danger, vigilantism, murder, society, money, vigilante, anti hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
LEE Kang-hee, an editorialist of the influential conservative newspaper puts a congressman, JANG Pil-woo to the position of a leading candidate for President using the power of the press. Behind this, there was his secret deal with the paper’s ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, revenge, conspiracy, government, gang, gangster, rivalry, danger, blackmail, evidence, mind game, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A high school coach, whose teenage daughter was murdered, takes matters into his own hands by going after the men who kidnap his students for their sex trafficking operation.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
human trafficking, revenge, vigilante, abduction, kidnapping, problem, loss of daughter, criminal gang, fighting crime, life is a bitch, criminal, lynching ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, kidnapping, ex soldier, war veteran, child abduction, vigilante, ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder, criminal, fighting crime, kidnapped, family problems ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Yuri, a retired special forces agent, is reluctantly forced into utilizing his old skills when his daughter, Julia, gets kidnapped by a human trafficking conglomerate just days before Christmas in Miami.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, father daughter relationship, agent, rescue, human trafficking, fighting crime, family relations, fight, abduction, father and daughter, kidnapped girl, father ...
Place:
miami
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dong-chul and Ji-soo are a happily married couple. One day, Dong-chul comes home to find his house in disarray and his wife missing.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, kidnapping, house, revenge, human trafficking, organized crime, bandit, gang, abduction, gang of outlaws, kidnapped woman, kidnapped wife ...
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After 10 years of incarceration on behalf of his employer, all Su-hyuk wants is a normal life - one he hopes will include his former girlfriend, Min-seo, and their daughter, In-bi. But once you've penetrated the upper echelons of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
organized crime, gang, underworld, hitman, redemption, second chance, fatherhood, changing lives, bandit, criminal, life is a bitch, male protagonist ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Mark is suspended from his police duties for his unruly yet effective ways of operating, but when 18 children are abducted and found dead, races to catch the criminals. With only 18 hours left, he must confront powerful foes and use unconventional ...
Style:
crime thriller, intense, suspenseful, tense, dark ...
Plot:
child abduction, investigation, vigilante justice, revenge, law enforcement, vigilante, corruption, family tragedy, rescue mission, violent, moral ambiguity, confrontation ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.
Style:
tense, intense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
search and rescue, father son relationship, missing person, lost, mountain, rescue mission, father, rescue, tragic event, squad, family relations, manhunt ...
Place:
romania
Similarity:
36%
501
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Story:
When a judicial apprentice goes behind bars while on an undercover job, he plays the hand he’s dealt to survive prison and get his payback.
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, tension, disturbing ...
Plot:
gambling, revenge, prisoner, survival, undercover, gambler, crisis, jail, life is a bitch, social problems, confined, illegal gambling ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sang-woo receives painful surgery when he is ten, and murders another kid from trauma. After he receives hypnosis treatment, he disappears with his family. After 25 years, a successful doctor meets his old friend one day, and everything changes.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, vengeance, haunted by the past, rivalry, danger, hospital, doctors and patients, investigation, childhood trauma, murder, killer, surgery ...
Time:
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Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
forest, nature, struggle for survival, teenager fighting adult, recluse, violence, life risking, child fighting adult, child in peril, survival, backwoods, danger ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Some wounds never heal. In a rundown East European town, the everyday lives of three working people are violently disrupted: a boy goes missing, a woman is stalked, and a man comes face to face with the killer of his child. A sinister chill grips ...
Style:
crime thriller, intense, tense, suspense, grim ...
Plot:
revenge, kidnapping, danger, stalking, missing child, manhunt, trauma, chase, small town, vengeance, vigilante justice, unsettling ...
Place:
central europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, El Salvador
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, serious, tension ...
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, female protagonist, gang, single mother, rescue, abduction, anger, danger, child in peril, determination, little boy ...
Place:
central america
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After the death of his wife and his young daughter in a traffic accident for which he was responsible, Luna falls into a large pit of depression. Neither medication nor religion help him to keep going. Until one day, Luna has a dream that he ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
risk, widower, death of daughter, abused woman, death of wife, loss of wife, violence, guilt, grief, depression, loss, redemption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Shivarudra Lingaiah, an MLA candidate, who along with Dheeraj, is awaiting to extract vengeance upon Prabhakar by killing his Daughter Nithya. She arrives at Bangalore to Talagavara to visit her late mother's grave and is kidnapped by ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
protection, rescue, protector, revenge, fight, criminal, hitman, gangster, organized crime, murder, battles, violent ...
Place:
kannada, india
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A maverick, vigilante cop who is forced to misbehave the limits of law when the system fails. It weaves across past and present whilesolving the motives and moral bruises that shape his actions.
Style:
crime thriller, captivating, thrilling, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cop, vigilante, criminal, breaking the law, police officer, troubled past, fighting the system, confronting the past, tragic past, gang, lawlessness, bandit ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
HONG Gildong is an infallible private detective with an exceptional memory and quirky personality. While chasing the only target he failed to find, he gets entangled in a much bigger conspiracy than he bargained for.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, conspiracy, revenge, murder mystery, friendship, expert, mind game, resourceful, eccentricity, talented, prodigy ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, family secret, trauma, murder mystery, character study, nightmare, domestic drama, violent outburst, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At the same time as murder suspect Yeo-hoon is brought unconscious to the emergency room following a shooting incident, an assailant breaks into the house of Tae-jun, the emergency room's doctor in charge, and kidnaps his wife. The kidnapper ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, intense, dark ...
Plot:
chase, conspiracy, danger, life turned upside down, kidnapping, asian, chases and races, twists and turns, hitman, on the run, runaway, group of criminals ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Johnny Moore, leader of the Moore gang, a group of professional hitmen, has been having his four thugs knock off several businessmen in the area. Finally, he decides to have them kill the prosecutor who is hot on his trail. After a few failed ...
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
assassination, murder, hitman, gang, law enforcement, master criminal, organized crime, violent, gang violence, revenge, investigation, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
With only three days to prove his innocence, a struggling ex-soldier (Derek Davenport) is forced to take one last job and save his client's kidnapped daughter (Amelia Haberman) or face time for a crime he did not commit.
Style:
action thriller, suspenseful, intense, tense, fast paced ...
Plot:
kidnapping, false accusation, rescue mission, wrongful accusation, chase, danger, ex soldier, deadline, violence, city, evidence, survival ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After his wife's suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, he finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
team, danger, police detective, heist, violence, partners in crime, serial killer, murder investigation, perfect crime, trauma, revenge, police ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Retired martial arts world champion Alex Faulkner has settled into a simple life, when the disappearance of two of his students leads to an unthinkable discovery close to home. Just when all hope of finding the children is lost, he locates the ...
Style:
intense, tense, suspenseful, emotional, noir
Plot:
martial arts, child trafficking, human trafficking, kidnapping, rescue mission, criminal syndicate, rescue attempt, vigilante, revenge, hand to hand combat, investigation, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
29%
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