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Gates of the Sun (2014)
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Gates of the Sun (2014)
Original name: Les Portes du soleil : Algérie pour toujours
Genre: Action
Country: Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working undercover, heroic mission, heroes, undercover, danger, hostage, secret organization, undercover agent, nightclub, master warrior, tough heroes, secret agent, mafia, terrorist group, martial arts, secret agents
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: algeria
Keyword: algerian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about danger, rivalry, heroes, martial arts, chases and races, tough heroes and master warrior mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Gates of the Sun: April Rain (2014), Urban Fighter (2012), Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002), Outside the Law (2002), Underground (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rogue Warfare: Death of a Nation (2020)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After rescuing Daniel from the terrorist Black Mask Organization, the team uncovers plans for a deadly bomb set to detonate in 36 hours that threatens world order. With no time to recover, Daniel must throw his life back on the line as he and his ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war on terror, swat, terrorist group, friendship, life is a bitch, danger, black ops, deception, military, lifestyle, top secret, brutality ...
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100%
 2.9
 897
April Rain (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, undercover, danger, terrorism, government agency, murder, spy, heroes, group, female nudity, sex in bed
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 3.2
 458
Urban Fighter (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The "Bloods" are the most intimidating and violent gang in the city. A lawless city... where gangs rule the streets... The vicious and blood thirsty murderer Slater is their leader. The city is his domain... he rules! There are those who ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, rivalry, murder, good versus evil, master warrior, chaos, tough heroes, escapades, danger, fight, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, rivalry, terrorism, heroic mission, confined, chases and races, escapades, heroes, danger, hijacking, bomb, boat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Outside the Law (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Secret agent Julie Cosgrove is walking into her most dangerous mission yet.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, secret agent, undercover, vengeance, danger, working undercover, hitman, starting over, government agency, heroes, murder, spy ...
Place: usa, colombia, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 4.2
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Underground (2007)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their ...
Style: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ambition, heroic mission, escapades, fighting crime, heroes, rivalry, danger, master warrior, underdog, ultimatum, battles ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
When the Cobra Strikes (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, tough heroes, smuggling, yakuza, violent content, obsessive quest, master warrior, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 3.3
 302
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Shootfighter II (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroes, female fight, boxer, working undercover, ambition, danger, contests and competitions, law enforcement, master warrior, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Sector 4: Extraction (2014)
Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Action - When an elite band of private mercenaries known as Black Knight gets caught behind enemy lines in a Middle East combat zone, their only hope for survival lies with the team leader, who has escaped but vows to return. - Salman Bokhari, ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 2.5
 292
Urgency (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 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 ...
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 ⇓
59%
 3.3
 775
The Purifiers (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fighting crime, gang, vengeance, rivalry, tough heroes, vigilantism, society, gangster, danger, murder, heroes ...
Time: future
Place: england, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Bangkok Revenge (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, Thailand
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Manit (Jon Foo) witnessed the murder of his parents when he was just 10 years old. The killers shot him in the head, but he miraculously survived. However, the damage to his brain left him unable to experience regular human emotions. A martial arts ...
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, danger, martial arts training, master warrior, murder, revenge, kung fu, violent content, profanity, chases and races, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.7
 1K
Extraction (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner extraction mission. Forced to fight his way out of a maximum-security Chechen prison, he must keep his ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic mission, daring rescue, one man army, danger, prison, conflict, escape, master warrior, heroes, violent content, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.6
 240
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 3.1
 821
Misfire (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: WKBA kickboxing champion and hard-action star Gary Daniels (The Expendables) takes to the screen in a border-crossing, barrier smashing all-action explosion that pits his will to live against the merciless murder machine of a Mexican drug cartel. ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: danger, police, rivalry, journalism, abduction, rescue, organized crime, drug cartel, captivity, chases and races, couple relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Valley of the Wolves Gladio (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, conspiracy, false accusation, rivalry, undercover, state affairs, government agency, forced into action, dishonesty, danger, kurd, turk ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Covert Operation (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, he travels between the border of China and North Korea, where the mission takes a turn for the worst.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, rough ...
Plot: secret agent, danger, soldier, undercover, rivalry, rescue attempt, behind enemy lines, escapades, plan, military base, confrontation, war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Assassin's Game (2015)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Legendary hitman Vet Jones never expected to accept another mission. But when his son fails to assassinate an important target, and a powerful crime boss gives Jones an ultimatum - finish the job or his son dies - Jones has no choice but to accept. ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sniper, hitman, parents and children, family relations, disorder, violent content, martial arts, master warrior, danger, heroes, tough heroes, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Protector 2 (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kham is the last in long line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the perfect elephants could successfully help defend the throne, after his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants, Kham ...
Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, serious, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, danger, heroes, motorcycle chase, chases and races, daring rescue, escapades, fight, medieval, tough heroes, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Sword Identity (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: During the Ming Dynasty one man will request a competition when his weapon is rejected. After a series of fights he is determined to prove his sword is invincible.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, sword fight, disorder, master warrior, against the odds, medieval, contests and competitions, ambition, mysterious character, heroes, mistaken identity, kung fu ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Road of No Return (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, undercover, danger, introspection, race against time, politics, law enforcement, anti hero, heroes, rivalry, orphan, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 2.8
 282
The Vanquisher (2009)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting
Plot: martial arts, terrorism, hitman, secret agent, save the day, escapades, danger, law enforcement, undercover, heroes, women, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Target of Opportunity (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, friendship, rescue, escapades, dishonesty, danger, political intrigue, spy, conflict, secret agent, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria, europe, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.2
 259
The Sanctuary (2009)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1897, the “Poisoned Knife” clan broke into the royal palace of Thailand to steal the Royal Antiques which the King intended to give to America as a reward for its help in negotiations that avoided Thai territorial cuts. The clan succeeded in ...
Style: serious, rough, stylized, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, save the world, heroic mission, criminal heroes, race against time, dishonesty, treasure hunt, daring rescue, one man army, master villain, good versus evil, master warrior ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.4
 573
Die Fighting (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a team of Shaolin-trained kung fu actors is about to get their break in Hollywood, a mysterious and sadistic Director forces them to run a gauntlet through Los Angeles. The Director films their every move as they prove their prowess by ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: martial arts, rivalry, battles, hollywood, shaolin monk, chase, danger, entrapment, monster, heroes, couple relations, master warrior ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 3.1
 615
Blood Money (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Zheng Zhou is the most feared warrior from the Shaolin Dynasty in China. His fighting and weapons skills are legendary. But when his parents are killed and sister kidnapped, he turns to a life of drugs and crime that will almost kill him. With the ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, danger, rivalry, violence, smuggling, drug cartel, triad, martial arts, master warrior, one man army, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.4
 607
Street Warrior (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An Iraqi war vet returns home to find that his brother is in a coma from participating in an illegal underground fight club.
Style: serious, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, gladiator, contests and competitions, vigilantism, rivalry, tough heroes, deathtrap, underground fighting, underground tournament, cage fighting, danger ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.1
 588
Speed (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Action / Foreign / Suspense - Sandeep Malhotra comes to London to convince his girlfriend to give him another chance. Meanwhile, Siddharth, an undercover MI5 agent, receives a CD, which contains the recording of his kidnapped wife, Richa, and is ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: hostage, working undercover, hidden identity, undercover, secret agent, missing person, politics, assassination, danger, chases and races, kidnapping, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Assassins' Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, working undercover, hitman, rivalry, undercover, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, woman with a gun, spy, haunted by the past, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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