Movies like V.I.P. 2017

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V.I.P. (2017)
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V.I.P. (2017)
Original name: 브이아이피
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir, noir
Plot: maniac, serial killer, revenge, investigation, injustice, murderer, murder, rivalry, violence, politics, runaway, intrigue, danger, espionage, erectile dysfunction, spy, cia, inter-korean relations, fugitive, female nudity, kidnapping, dismemberment, ex-cop, police corruption, son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, south korea, busan
Keyword: korean, north korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, captivating and psychological films with plots about murder, danger, investigation, revenge, rivalry, violence and asian mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like V.I.P.: I Saw the Devil (2010), New World (2013), Believer (2018), Night in Paradise (2020), The Negotiation (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Saw the Devil (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
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Audience: date night, manly, adult
Plot: serial killer, revenge, vengeance, murder, psychopath, violence, macabre, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, brutality, torture ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia
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 7.5
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New World (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story: An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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Believer (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A detective goes undercover in a drug ring and allies with a member of the drug ring in order to take it down.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: master villain, drug dealer, mysterious past, impersonation, fighting crime, gang leader, investigation, danger, showdown, rivalry, murder, die ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Night in Paradise (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Negotiation (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An ace police crisis negotiator, Chae-yoon, is called to the scene where her supervisor is taken hostage. Through the control room monitor, she is faced with the cold-blooded hostage taker, Tae-gu, whose demeanors are difficult to interpret. Against ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Ja-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dragged into a world of crime and finds herself on a journey that will ...
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
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No Mercy (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Story: Forensic pathologist Kang (Seol Kyeong-gu) is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min (Han Hye-jin) points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho (Ryoo Seung-beom), as the primary suspect. But when ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, murder, police investigation, autopsy, forensics, tragic hero, daughter, arrest, regret, threat, vengeance, professor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A 5 member gang, led by Seok-Tae (Kim Yun-Seok), kidnaps a baby boy named Hwa-Yi and raises the baby like their own son. The baby boy is now 17 years old (Yeo Jin-Goo) and has turned into a lethal killer. Taking part in his father's gang, ...
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, asian, criminal, deception, teenage boy, chase, investigation, murder, boy, parents and children, hitman, gunfight ...
Place: east asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Killer (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: When retired hitman’s wife goes on vacation with her friend, she asks him to look after the friend's teenage daughter. Things go awry when he is forced to use a little violence to protect the girl from juvenile delinquents, but then they are ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 7.1
 6K
Steel Rain (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A former agent from the North Korean intelligence and a senior member of the South Korean security services conduct a secret mission to prevent the breakout of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Style: suspense, political thriller, political, captivating, tense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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No Tears for the Dead (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Abandoned by his mother shortly after immigrating to America, Gon is raised by the mafia and grows up to become a cold-blooded hitman. Though usually flawless in taking out his targets, Gon makes a terrible mistake of killing an innocent young girl. ...
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, psychological, action thriller ...
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 6.2
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Steel Rain 2 (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.
Style: political thriller, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
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Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted ...
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 6.1
 1K
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Duration: 131 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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 4.5
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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.
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18%
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Country: South Korea
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Drug King (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
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Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
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Place: south korea, busan
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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