Movies like The Expendables 3

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The Expendables 3 (2014)
 6.1
 195K
The Expendables 3 (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough, action packed, action thriller, humorous, retro, scenic, cult classic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: mercenary, danger, commando, cia, mission, martial arts, partner, spy, violent, heroes, terrorism, rescue, battles, military, exodus, escapades, rivalry, tank, revenge, fight, violence, motorcycle, kidnapping, betrayal, car chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, moscow russia, las vegas, california, romania, wyoming, bucharest ...
Keyword: partners, reboot, russian, gangsters, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to The Expendables 3

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, action adventure and surprise ending films with plots about machine gun, murder, shootout, martial arts, explosion, pistol and brawl mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Expendables 3: Rambo (2008), xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017), The A-Team (2010), Street Fighter (1994), The Losers (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Expendables (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church ...
Style: exciting, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: gunfight, martial arts, tough guy, mercenary, sniper, chase, machismo, assassin, showdown, military, fistfight, shootout ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: latin america, new orleans, somalia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Rambo (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent ...
Style: brutal, bloody, action packed, grindhouse, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, rambo, violent, lone hero, jungle, warrior, sniper, mercenary, heroes, army, military, survival ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: burma, asia, thailand, arizona, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, action packed, intense, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: weapons, tough guy, revenge, lone hero, spy hero, superhero, back from the dead, spy, martial artist, car chase, chase, secret service ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: dominican republic, london, new york, the philippines, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 268K
The A-Team (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, intense, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot: team, chase, cia, prison escape, anti hero, ex military, conspiracy, mercenary, frame up, vengeance, fight scenes, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: colorado, iran, california, germany, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Street Fighter (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, mixed martial arts, street fighter, military, danger, female warrior, beast, master warrior, kung fu, computer game, video game, battles ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A spinoff of The Fate of the Furious, focusing on Johnson's US Diplomatic Security Agent Luke Hobbs forming an unlikely alliance with Statham's Deckard Shaw.
Style: buddy comedy, entertaining, tense, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: tough guy, car, brother and sister, terrorism, secret organization, chase, speed, fight, martial arts, chases and races, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future
Place: usa, tower bridge london, moscow russia, london, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Expendables 2 (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
Style: exciting, action packed, bloody, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, ex military, villain, mercenary, hotshot, tough heroes, commando, revenge, terrorist plot, leader, heroes, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, china, new orleans, nepal, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.2
 107K
The Losers (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal ...
Style: exciting, funny, captivating, fast paced, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: betrayal, cia, vengeance, teamwork, mercenary, comic book, escapades, fight scenes, revenge, spy, hacking, female fighter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: puerto rico, mumbai india, new mexico, dubai, pentagon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, terrorism, police, heist, race against time, bomb, police officer, car chase, revenge, weapons, puzzle, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, north america, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Style: action packed, harsh, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, revenge, rambo, weapons, vietnam war, violent, prisoner, prison, chase, violence, soldier, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, arizona, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
London Has Fallen (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, psychotronic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, terrorist, hostage, president, terrorist attack, conspiracy, survival, danger, save the day, assassination, head of state ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, buckingham palace, tokyo, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cliffhanger (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, heist, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, villain, snow, redemption, rescue, survival ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s
Place: colorado, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mercenaries (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A diplomatic official is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.
Style: mockbuster, exciting, suspense, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: rescue, female agent, prison, female spy, female protagonist, danger, dishonesty, confined, state affairs, female prisoner, female warrior, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, kazakhstan, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Japan, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
Style: exciting, stylized, entertaining, action adventure, saga ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: car, racing, car race, chase, female villain, fast car, kidnapping, spy, car chase, fight, street racing, redemption ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, havana cuba, berlin germany, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
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Furious 7 (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan, Canada, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
Style: exciting, entertaining, serious, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: chases and races, revenge, car chase, car, race, chase, car race, racing, danger, street racing, classic car, funeral ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, tokyo, dominican republic, los angeles, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
Style: breathtaking, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: spy, mission, espionage, conspiracy, tough guy, female agent, rogue agent, cia agent, tough girl, secret service, terrorist plot, cia ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, austria, vienna, europe, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Vanguard (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Taiwan, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, undercover agent, computer cracker, fight, kidnapping, female warrior, medieval, danger, heroes, rescue, rescue mission, secret agent ...
Time: 2020s
Place: london, tower bridge london, middle east, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, stylized, predictable ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, president, martial arts, military, superhero, bodyguard, terrorism, gi joe, betrayal, revenge, comic book, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle, north korea, germany, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons ...
Style: tense, melancholic, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: father son relationship, tough cop, two man army, bomb, car chase, cia agent, 007, terrorism, spy, violence, agent, american abroad ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Transporter (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, sexy, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: car chase, chase, one man army, tough guy, lone hero, martial arts, transportation, tough heroes, fight scenes, escapades, car, smuggling ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, europe, saint tropez, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, France, Norway, UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story: When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfil his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against ...
Style: action adventure, fast, action drama, action packed, political thriller ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: spy, terrorist, hand to hand combat, agent, plutonium, espionage, violence, tough guy, female spy, rogue agent, mission impossible, cia ...
Time: 2010s
Place: kashmir, london, ireland, rome italy, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 464K
Spectre (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
Style: suspense, entertaining, exciting, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: james bond, spy, espionage, secret agent, secret service, 007, chase, one man army, british secret service, kidnapping, rogue agent, terrorist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 21st century
Place: london, rome italy, italy, north africa, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Project X-Traction (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a China-run oil refinery is attacked in Mosul, Iraq, a Chinese private security contractor is called in to extract the oil workers. He learns, however, that the attackers’ real plan is to steal a fortune in oil, and teams up with an American ...
Style: exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: danger, escapades, blood, murder, war, survival, rescue, special forces, hopes, society, culture clash, catastrophe ...
Time: 2020s
Place: middle east, baghdad iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 129K
Homefront (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his action against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his boss' son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9-years-old daughter,Maddy. He decides to ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, exciting, breathtaking ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, protector, ex law enforcer, tough heroes, single father, chase, drug, single parent, undercover cop, mentor, drug dealer, retiring ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 43K
Who Am I? (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Martial-arts megastar Jackie Chan wrote, directed and stars in this action-comedy. Secret agent Jackie (Chan) leads a commando group to Africa to kidnap scientists who are working to unleash a powerful -- and lethal -- new energy source. When Jackie ...
Style: light, semi serious, suspenseful, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, secret agent, kung fu, chase, spy, master warrior, fight, on the run, danger, fight scenes, amnesia, female agent ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: hong kong, africa, east asia, south africa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, China, Indonesia, Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Five Eyes, the international intelligence agency, recruits MI6 agent Orson Fortune to prevent the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
Style: entertaining, captivating, satirical, humorous, action comedy ...
Plot: agent, cia, teamwork, cia agent, secret mission, spy, undercover, secret agent, fight, special agent, satire, fighting crime ...
Time: 2020s
Place: london, madrid, los angeles, morocco, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 116K
Fast X (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, entertaining, suspenseful ...
Plot: car, revenge, carsploitation, elevator, fast car, car chase, fight, driving lesson, good versus evil, punched in the face, home invasion, shootout ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: rome italy, naples italy, rio de janeiro, brazil, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.8
 34K
Expend4bles (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Expendables square up against an arms dealer who commands the might of a massive private army.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, tense, action thriller
Plot: good versus evil, spy, tough guy, warrior, teamwork, death of child, terrorist, mission, mercenary, army, man on a mission, swat team ...
Time: 2020s
Place: thailand, southeast asia, syria, new orleans, libya
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.8
 140K
Rambo III (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when ...
Style: action packed, intense, homoerotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: manly, family outing, boys' night
Plot: one man army, lone hero, rambo, heroes, desert, gunfight, revenge, violence, loner, war, cold war, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: middle east, afghanistan, pakistan, soviet union, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, lone hero, chase, assassin, tough guy, murder, killer, assassination, criminal's revenge, mercenary, martial arts, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, usa, cambodia, bangkok thailand, southeast asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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