Movies like Protection 2001
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Protection (2001)
462
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
starting over, hidden identity, going straight, criminal heroes, hitman, vengeance, rivalry, danger, crime gone awry, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, tough heroes, gangster, special agent, chase, law enforcement, small town, disorder, chases and races, witnessing a crime, small town life, escape, violence, caucasian, mobster ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Protection
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about dishonesty, deadly, rivalry, danger, disorder, gangster and law enforcement mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Protection: High Voltage (1997), Beyond Hypothermia (1996), Betrayal (2003), Twin Sisters (1992), Living & Dying (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
bank robbery, shootout, criminal heroes, disorder, chases and races, danger, gangster, law enforcement, crime gone awry, rivalry, good versus evil, bank ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
contract killer, female assassin, chase, assassination, heroic bloodshed, vengeance, gang, survival, betrayal, gory, frame up, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, cambodia, korea, asia, seoul
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, spoof ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, femme fatale, tough heroes, hitman, on the run, police investigation, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, chase, danger, criminal heroes, single parent ...
Place:
usa, texas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman flies from Los Angeles to Montreal to investigate the supposed death of her identical twin. What she finds out could get her killed.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
twins, serial killer, murder, estrangement, disorder, amateur detective, prostitute, switching roles, dishonesty, law enforcement, investigation, undercover ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, montreal, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
anal rape, kidnapping, hitman, tough heroes, crime gone awry, disorder, unlikely criminals, master criminal, danger, law enforcement, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, touching, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, gangster, rivalry, hidden identity, dishonesty, social decay, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, master criminal, assassination attempt, betrayal, disorder ...
Place:
usa, chicago, arkansas
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
profanity, gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, gangster, disorder, crime gone awry, on the run, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, south america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangster, introspection, working undercover, rivalry, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, danger, assassin ...
Place:
usa, cuba, florida, new york, miami
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A desperate band of Militia men attempts a daylight bank robbery in the sleepy semi-rural City of Norco, California, and leads the local Police on the longest, most violent running gun battle in Law Enforcement history. Based on the true events.
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, bank, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, suburbs, swat, car chase, chases and races, violent content, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of an security guard whose spotless record at crime prevention marks the horrifying reality of deception, blackmail and murder.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, psychopath, murder, manipulation, rivalry, dishonesty, security guard, police, obsession, xmas, surveillance, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma city
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
contract killing, hitman, dangerous attraction, murder, manipulation, crime gone awry, hidden identity, femme fatale, couples, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, gangster, tough heroes, law enforcement, betrayal, danger, confined, dishonesty, woman in danger, gambling, disorder, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, nevada
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, kinky sex, female assassin, vengeance, crime gone awry, couples, disorder, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drug deal hijacked by a third party, they leave the drugs and take the money. A stripper witnesses a murder and now the Mafia's after but there is nowhere safe to hide.
Style:
independent film, exciting, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
stripper, amateur detective, reluctant partners, partner, gangster, violent content, profanity, hitman, chases and races, dishonesty, rivalry, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, murder, investigation, hidden identity, law enforcement, working undercover, fighting crime, master criminal, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, vengeance, rivalry ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four young con artists start a top-secret money laundering scheme - and are slowly torn apart by their own greed and corruption.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cons and scams, gangster, rise and fall, dishonesty, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, ambition, disorder, scheme, graphic violence, violent content, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Detective Carrie Macklin and her little sister Elle had always been the closest of friends. But when Elle goes missing after a run-in with a relocated sex offender, it is up to Carrie to find her little sister...who is nine months pregnant. Carrie ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, detective
Plot:
murder, police investigation, law enforcement, missing person, police detective, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, infidelity, woman in danger, missing child, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from the city's new Mainland government, he ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prostitute, on the run, cons and scams, vengeance, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, drug dealing, rivalry, betrayal, chases and races, prison, partner ...
Place:
hong kong, the philippines, california, asia, usa ...
Similarity:
32%
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186
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
rescue, special agent, danger, intrigue, law enforcement, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance, mafia, kidnapping, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
London gangster Christian has a plan to kill off the opposition, but things get messy when a witness survives.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, criminal's revenge, gangster, hitman, murder, fighting crime, police investigation, witnessing a crime, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
30%
756
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, action packed, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
femme fatale, cons and scams, odd couple, crime gone awry, on the run, danger, desert, heist, store, disorder, criminal's revenge, on the road ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cons and scams, going straight, life is a bitch, drug dealing, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, addiction, law enforcement, gangster, drug abuse, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic cash. However, when the trade goes awry, three men end up murdered- one a cop with a vengeful ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
good versus evil, forgery, nypd, murder, cop, shootout, deal, killer, undercover, sister, criminal, money ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 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, hitman, working undercover, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, vengeance, spy, woman with a gun, covert operation, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A drifter comes to the town of Deepwater and is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot:
sexually dissatisfied wife, criminal's revenge, disorder, haunted by the past, crime gone awry, farm, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, murder, investigation, danger, hitchhiking ...
Place:
wyoming, usa
Similarity:
28%
384
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Luke, is a grifter who owes a significant debt to the Mexican mob. Set in the gritty underbelly of Gardena, CA Luke has to come up with one final scheme to pay back his debt or his life is at risk. Supported by his two only friends, Courtney and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
disorder, danger, dishonesty, looking for sex, criminal's revenge, partner, going straight, rivalry, chaos and mayhem, blind ambition, female masturbation, voyeur ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, drug dealing, danger, going straight, criminal heroes, hitman, tough heroes, prison, violence, prisoner, organized crime, martial arts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shifting alliances put a pair of hardnosed hit men in jeopardy in this 1999 crime caper. A New Orleans mob boss looking to settle scores sends Ray (Rick Fox) and A.K. (Casper Van Dien) to New York City to collect overdue debts.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
partner, gangster, violent content, chases and races, partners against crime, dishonesty, tough heroes, criminal's revenge, hitman, crime gone awry, buddies, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, new york, montreal
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, stylized, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
woman with a gun, gangster, renegade, betrayal, dishonesty, drug dealing, vengeance, criminal heroes, law enforcement, haunted by the past, love triangle, manhunt ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A tense and intricate web of deceit and betrayal entangles Archie, a wandering grifter who is hired by a traveling carnival owner to murder his beautiful wife.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, murder, betrayal, crime gone awry, frame up, gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, femme fatale, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, cons and scams ...
Place:
usa, new orleans, alabama
Similarity:
26%
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