Movies like Beast of Burden

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Beast of Burden (2018)
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Beast of Burden (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
Style: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: hitman, drug cartel, race against time, police, rescue, hostage, chase, danger, murder, conspiracy, rivalry, secrets, cartel, dea, airplane, killer, radio, wife, flying, husband wife relationship, deadline, drug, smuggling, cargo, trailer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa

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Most similar movies to Beast of Burden

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, exciting and suspense films with plots about danger, murder, rivalry, deadly, chase, chases and races and violence mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Beast of Burden: The Last Hit Man (2008), Assassins' Code (2011), Down and Dangerous (2013), The Killer (2006), Breakout (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Last Hit Man (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ageing hit man, Harry, has just botched a job and is now the target. His daughter is also in the assassin trade and is now a target too. A young hit man called Billy is sent to take Harry out but they form an uneasy alliance...
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, rivalry, family relations, danger, partner, parents and children, terminal illness, killer, save the day, murder, assassin, contract killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, canada
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95%
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 ⇓
91%
Down and Dangerous (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An inventive and resourceful cocaine smuggler defends his trade against violent rival traffickers, a monstrous and vengeful killer, and the DEA agents who want to lock him up – all while falling for a stunningly beautiful woman with a taste for ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug, rescue, danger, woman in danger, rivalry, smuggler, chase, smuggling, mexican american border, violent content, conundrum, henchman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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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 ⇓
89%
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Breakout (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: parents and children, rescue, chase, danger, siblings relations, wilderness, witnessing a crime, murder, death, family relations, youth, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Body Armour (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: assassin, hitman, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, murder, gunfight, violent content, vengeance, heroes, profanity, shootout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Narx (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, exciting, crime drama ...
Plot: drug dealer, undercover cop, corruption, murder, police, police detective, investigation, chase, youth, police officer, death, revenge ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Power of Few (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, escapades, religions or cults, medicine, multiple storylines, danger, collision, violent content, profanity, obsessive quest, dishonesty, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Nothing Without You (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A psych-patient, accused of a violent murder, turns to her court-appointed psychiatrist to prove her innocence and sanity. Her psychiatrist must help her decipher delusion from truth to unravel the mystery of her reality.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: psychiatrist, psychopath, patient, psychiatrist patient relationship, female psychopath, doctor patient relationship, danger, society, woman in danger, dishonesty, murder, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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 ⇓
85%
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Best Seller (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, hitman, serial killer, writers, vengeance, assassin, anti hero, police detective, psychopath, writer's life, danger, killer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987, 70s
Place: texas, california, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Beyond the Law (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a former detective learns of the murder of his estranged son, he ventures back to the darkened streets he once knew so well. Armed, dangerous and with nothing to lose, he must take on the ruthless local mob in his mission for revenge.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: police, escapades, murder, rivalry, betrayal, danger, redemption, friends, life is a bitch, revenge, killer, son ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Race Against Time (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a man faces surmounting bills for his dying son's hospital stay, he enters into an agreement to sell his body for organ transplants to pay the bills. However, when he is advised that the doctors want to claim his organs immediately, he ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hospital, on the run, danger, fugitives, race against time, rivalry, chase, self sacrifice, father son relationship, terminator, star wars, organ transplant ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Zero Tolerance (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told ...
Style: suspense, independent film, fast, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: die hard, vigilantism, murder, drug abuse, violent content, gangster, special agent, hitman, tough heroes, drug dealing, master criminal, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Black Luck (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A hitman in hiding struggles to keep his monsters at bay when his dark past comes calling. Some days your LUCK just goes BLACK.
Style: bloody, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense
Plot: mafia, hitman, torture, brother brother relationship, revenge, fight scenes, blood, violence, society, organized crime, rivalry, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: midwest
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Bird (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be ...
Style: exciting, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, love, murder, danger, gangster, violence, chase, love and romance, friends, couple relations, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Pistolera (2020)
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, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug lord, vengeance, murder, danger, gangster, death, battles, drug dealer, violence, society, obsession, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: small town, manhunt, chase, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Bad Country (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, murder, investigation, police, police investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, danger, snitch, informant, swamp, deep south ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa, louisiana
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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
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83%
The Fast and the Fierce (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When terrorists plant a bomb on a commercial flight, the passengers aboard the plane must fight to keep the plane in the air and all the passengers alive: the bomb is rigged to detonate whenever the plane dips below 800 feet.
Style: tense, exciting, suspense, mockbuster
Plot: terrorism, bomb, murder, blackmail, terrorist, law enforcement, hostage, save the day, master criminal, chases and races, twists and turns, one man army ...
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83%
12 Hours to Live (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of survival are diminishing with each tick of the clock. FBI agent Megan Saunders isn't walking ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, diabetic, woman in danger, police investigation, danger, chase, kidnapped, terminal illness, kidnapping, salvation, weapons, captive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Hijacked (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, save the day, danger, secret agent, hijacking, confined, rivalry, air disaster, police officer, murder, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Dirty Lies (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An under-appreciated intern entrusted with a million dollar necklace races to find out which of his money hungry room-mates betrayed him as he battles a desperate criminal duo bent on stealing.
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, psychological
Plot: stolen jewelry, betrayal, mob boss, rivalry, organized crime, gangster, chase, jewel theft, brutality, vengeance, murder, greed ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Dog Bite Dog (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young Cambodian man who has been trained to fight for money in his country is hired to kill someone in Hong Kong. He performs the hit and then flees from Hong Kong police, who are wrestling with internal problems of a model cop and his son, who is ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: hitman, chase, martial arts, on the run, vengeance, law enforcement, danger, good versus evil, life is a bitch, heroic bloodshed, violence, triad ...
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The Negotiator (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, intense, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, police, corruption, police corruption, false accusation, conspiracy, negotiation, frame up, swat, uncover truth, twists and turns, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.5
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Cellular (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, sexy, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, race against time, cell phone, secrets, home invasion, police corruption, lone hero, runaway, kidnapped, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Hard Night Falling (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Goro, a criminal mastermind, plot to steal a massive cache of gold from the Rossini family. Unbeknownst to Goro and his soldiers of fortune, one of Rossini's guest is a highly trained foreign operative who fights to not only save the hostages ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
Audience: boys' night
Plot: goon, hostage, danger, rivalry, escapades, murder, martial artist, henchman, father daughter relationship, father daughter reunion, abandoned building, husband wife relationship ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Towards Darkness (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
Style: tense, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, crime gone awry, car chase, destiny, missing child, rivalry, race against time, chase, terrorism, danger, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.9
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Villain (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, rivalry, police, murder, debt, society, violence, escapades, family relations, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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