Movies like Semper Fi
If you like "Semper Fi" you are looking for tense, crime drama and psychological movies about / with friendship, police, violence, murder, life is a bitch, brutality and loyalty themes of Action, Drama and Thriller genre shot in UK or USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Semper Fi (2019)
4K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Cal is a dedicated cop who also serves as a sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. When his reckless half brother lands in jail for accidentally killing a man, Cal and his buddies hatch a plan to break him out of prison -- no matter what the cost.
Style:
tense, crime drama, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, action thriller, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, police, violence, murder, life is a bitch, brutality, loyalty, danger, moral dilemma, adaptation, brotherhood, dishonesty, family bonds, fight, rivalry, society, ambition, life philosophy, hopes, sacrifice, law enforcement, vigilante justice, ptsd, iraq war, mature ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
pennsylvania
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Semper Fi
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about revenge, danger, murder, corruption, violence, betrayal and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Semper Fi: Canal Street (2018), Crown Vic (2019), Wheelman (2017), Operation Mekong (2016), The Thinning (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Style:
captivating, exciting, rough, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
father son relationship, society, murder, rivalry, death, hopes, parents and children, violence, vengeance, friendship, heroes, redemption ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must ...
Style:
suspense, perverse, brutal, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
patrol, female pubic hair, rookie, male nudity, friendship, fighting crime, partner, police brutality, danger, evidence, surveillance, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
24K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, driver, betrayal, profanity, family relations, parents and children, adaptation, life is a bitch, escapades, police, rivalry, danger ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Chinese narco-cops take their mission to the Golden Triangle following the Mekong River massacre of innocent fishermen by the region's drug lord.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
boat, illegal drugs, river, danger, resistance, murder, ship, crew, soldier, fight, golden triangle, die hard ...
Place:
china, thailand
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test, two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy.
Style:
brutal, touching, disturbing, cynical, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
overpopulation, protest, youth, eugenics, dystopian future, dishonesty, love, danger, rivalry, high school, dystopia, distopia ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
frame up, betrayal, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, tough heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, organized crime, criminal, murder, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
small town, vengeance, law enforcement, police investigation, rivalry, murder, dishonesty, life is a bitch, mistaken identity, moral ambiguity, sexual assault, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
29%
621
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When The Thief’s partner is kidnapped after stealing millions in cash from a merciless drug lord named Nushi, he reluctantly teams up with an angst-ridden orphan to rescue him. Nushi enlists her most trusted hitman, The Cowboy, a lovable charmer ...
Style:
tension, suspense, fast paced, road movie, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, heist, drug lord, car, hitman, rescue mission, drug, gunfight, criminal underworld, anti hero, partnership, urban setting ...
Similarity:
27%
Movie in collections
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, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, danger, violence, society, police, debt, murder, family relations, escapades, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
Style:
exciting, disturbing, heartbreaking, crime drama, realistic ...
Plot:
revenge, police, violence, small town, drug addiction, murder, sibling relationship, murder investigation, suspect, conflict, police officer, child in peril ...
Place:
south america, pennsylvania
Similarity:
26%
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:
25%
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:
24%
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:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A rogue NSA agent joins an elite group of Native American trackers who call themselves the Shadow Wolves as they engage in missions to protect justice in America and abroad.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, lighthearted ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
escapades, tough guy, one against many, organized crime, daring rescue, spy, gunfight, danger, lone hero, betrayal, violent content, graphic violence ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, society, murder, friendship, danger, escapades, rivalry, small town, police, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2012, year 2002
Similarity:
22%
5K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends end up on opposite extremes of morality, and face each other in a good vs evil war.
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
rivalry, friendship, betrayal, good versus evil, friends, relationship problems, competitor, friendship between men, social problems, betrayal by friend, life is a bitch, escalation ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
There is no honor without truth. When gang wars spin out of control in downtown Washington D.C., one man steps onto the battlefirld to hunt down a ruthless killer. A young man has been released from prison and is determined to build a new life for ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, drug dealing, redemption, investigation, police corruption, friendship, tough law enforcer, police investigation, criminal heroes, law enforcement, partner, going straight ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Recently released from prison, Billy will do whatever it takes to save the only person who has stuck by him, his mother Grace who desperately needs a liver transplant and she is all out of legal options.
Style:
tense, crime drama, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
cartel, desperation, moral dilemma, mother and son, organ trafficking, money problems, transplant, organ donation, blood donor, organ transplant, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico
Similarity:
21%
Movie in collections
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After 3 years have passed since the end of the events of the first part, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
brothers, family problems, criminal, relationship problems, family life, brother brother relationship, crime boss, satire, marital problem, danger, underworld, organized crime ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to ...
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, police, junkie, female nudity, spy thriller, addiction, informant, law enforcement, narcotics, law, save the day, cancer ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 261 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the novel by Thomas Engström, a former Stasi double agent is asked by his old CIA contact to work one more case.
Style:
psychological, sincere, tense, suspense, disturbing
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
danger, adaptation, violence, escapades, life is a bitch, destiny, murder, brutality, society, rivalry, life philosophy, debt ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Frank is a police officer who loses his family in a tragedy. In desperation he turns to crime and makes a living as a hitman for the mob.
Style:
crime drama, dark, neo noir, tense, gloomy ...
Plot:
hitman, violence, assassin, loss of family, mature, moral ambiguity, grief, murder, anti hero, character study, lonely, revenge ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young black man is a growing basketball star in his school. The Mob decides to initiate him and manage him. He likes the presents, money and girls, but his coach does not. When things go too far, only his coach can do what must be done.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
coach, basketball, money, basketball player, basketball coach, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, price of fame, social problems, black man, life is a bitch, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
20%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film, disturbing ...
Plot:
addiction, redemption, small town, hopes, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, danger, drug, desperation, loss, regret, anti hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
20%
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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, rescue, society, starting over, clergy, chase, father daughter relationship, family tragedy, uncover truth, danger, desperation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Morocco, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After the murder of her two Scandinavian friends in Morocco, a Russian blogger decides to do her own justice.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
murder, justice, revenge, blogger, female protagonist, vigilante, female assassin, criminal, criminal's revenge, criminal syndicate, murderer, syndicate ...
Place:
morocco, russia, scandinavia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
love triangle, scapegoat, revenge, ex convict, manipulation, murder, going straight, crime gone awry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, frame up, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After the FBI receives a threat that endangers the entire city, an interrogator and an I.T. specialist are plunged into a series of mind games with a criminal mastermind, desperately racing against time to uncover the villain's true agenda as ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
fbi, threat, danger, fbi agent, death, rivalry, society, murder, disorder, life is a bitch, die hard, woman with a gun ...
Time:
year 2016
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man who has just become unemployed kills his closest relatives before he judges himself. Commissioner Schimanski determined.
Style:
detective, crime drama, dark, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
murder, police procedural, police investigation, investigation, revenge, family tragedy, realism, unemployment, desperation, violence, moral dilemma, serial killer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, france, europe, germany
Similarity:
19%
Related movie lists
