Movies like The Protege

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The Protege (2021)
 6.1
 38K
The Protege (2021)
Original name: The Protégé
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, perverse, cult classic, neo noir, realistic, surprise ending, serious
Plot: female assassin, female killer, revenge, assassin, murder, vengeance, hitman, female warrior, drone, seduction, chase, female protagonist, assassination, female mercenary, killer, murderer, killings, seductress, seductive woman, cat versus mouse, attempted seduction, spy, female agent, strong female lead, kidnapping ...
Time: future, 90s, 2020s, year 1991, 21st century, 1990s
Place: vietnam, london, bucharest
Keyword: vietnamese, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, surprise ending, tense and exciting films with plots about murder, assassin, death, fight, revenge, violence and shot in the head mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Protege: Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), Polar (2019), American Assassin (2017), Anna (2019), The Gray Man (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Sam has no choice but to go rogue to save the life of an innocent 8-year-old girl in the middle of the gang war she has unleashed.
Style: suspense, cult classic, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot: assassin, female killer, female assassin, female protagonist, strong female lead, murder, fight, female warrior, woman with a gun, family in danger, female secret agent, revenge ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 98K
Polar (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
Style: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: assassin, revenge, one against many, organized crime, vengeance, one man army, rough sex, rivalry, bare butt, bare breasts, superhero, assassination attempt ...
Time: 2010s
Place: seattle, chile, montana, detroit, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Assassin (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
Style: psychotronic, action adventure, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: cia, terrorism, counter terrorism, terrorist, terrorist plot, one against many, revenge, mentor, spy, training, kickboxing, government agent ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: london, turkey, italy, rome italy, virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 93K
Anna (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Style: suspense, action thriller, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: spy, female assassin, female protagonist, female spy, one woman army, female agent, cia agent, murder, double agent, assassin, model, russian spy ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 80s, year 1985 ...
Place: paris france, moscow russia, russia, milan italy, bahamas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Gray Man (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, UK, Canada, Thailand, Denmark, France, Cambodia, Vietnam
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller ...
Plot: agent, cia, assassin, gunfight, hitman, fight, murder, mission, female warrior, killer, murderer, cia agent ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2003, 2020s
Place: prague, central europe, europe, thailand, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 107K
Colombiana (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, vengeance, revenge, female killer, vigilante, one against many, assassin, tough girl, haunted by the past, female protagonist, strong female lead ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 1992, 90s, 21st century
Place: colombia, chicago, latin america, south america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 200K
Red Sparrow (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, sexy, rough, brutal ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: spy, uncle niece relationship, female spy, female agent, russian spy, female assassin, secret agent, deception, femme fatale, secret mission, torture, strong female character ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, budapest, ussr, hungary, chechnya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 38K
Unlocked (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK, USA, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, rough, entertaining ...
Plot: terrorism, spy, cia, biohazard, female warrior, betrayal, cia agent, female protagonist, virus, rogue agent, terrorist, biological warfare ...
Time: year 2017, future, 2010s, year 2012
Place: paris france, moscow russia, tower bridge london, big ben london, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Hunter's Prayer (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, action thriller, satanic, independent film ...
Plot: assassin, escape, escape attempt, survival, female assassin, planned murder, chase, teenager, orphan, rescue, innocent person killed, one man army ...
Time: 2010s
Place: new york, yorkshire, switzerland, france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 171K
The Mechanic (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But ...
Style: clever, stylized, brutal, tense, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, assassin, chase, mentor, lone hero, loner, martial arts, tough guy, vengeance, revenge, deception, arms dealer ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, colombia, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 19K
Everly (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, female assassin, strong female lead, female warrior, gangster, woman kills a man, female protagonist, katana, sex slave, tough girl, survival, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Assassin Club (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
Style: tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: assassin, killer, murder, hitman, race against time, cat versus mouse, struggle for survival, serial killer, problem, murderer, killings, agent ...
Time: 2020s
Place: paris france, rome italy, barcelona, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
 70K
Kate (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After she's irreversibly poisoned, a ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.
Style: suspense, cult classic, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
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Plot: female assassin, murder, revenge, assassin, female protagonist, woman, yakuza, fight, poison, strong female lead, murderer, vengeance ...
Time: 2020s
Place: tokyo, japan, osaka japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
11%
 6.5
 70K
Peppermint (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.
Style: brutal, exciting, independent film, neo noir, anamorphic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, revenge, female protagonist, female warrior, murder, justice, female assassin, corruption, one woman army, loss of child, dark heroine, mercilessness ...
Time: year 2017, year 2012, 2010s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
 46K
The Mother (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: assassin, conspiracy, mother and daughter, daughter, fight, danger, female protagonist, killer, hitman, murderer, female killer, ex special forces ...
Time: 2020s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 5.6
 37K
The 355 (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: China, USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Columbian and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, action thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female protagonist, female agent, woman with a gun, female spy, female assassin, spy, undercover agent, kick-butt women, fight, female warrior, female secret agent, mission ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: montmartre paris, berlin germany, paris france, washington d.c., shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.5
 62K
Ava (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: woman with a gun, assassin, female assassin, female agent, one woman army, murder, female spy, woman fights a man, strong female character, female killer, intelligence agency, female protagonist ...
Time: 2020s
Place: saudi arabia, paris france, boston, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
 5K
Eliminators (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, agent, hitman, revenge, widower, daughter, pursuit, mistaken identity, manhunt, father daughter relationship, police, police officer ...
Time: 2010s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Fighting with Anger (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ray (Fleming) is a young, beautiful and deadly assassin looking for answers about her past. Will (Willie Nelson) is her aging mentor who assigns her to a series of new jobs and may know more about her past than he is letting on. When an innocent ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 17K
The Villainess (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, bloody ...
Plot: female killer, female assassin, female protagonist, woman fights a man, murder, martial arts, revenge, assassin, secret identity, female secret agent, mentor protege relationship, chase ...
Time: year 2017
Place: south korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 11K
Proud Mary (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, retro ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female warrior, female assassin, gangster, revenge, female killer, female protagonist, murder, death, one woman army, black, violence, strong female lead ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 86K
Mile 22 (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorist, black ops, top secret, surveillance, cia, shootout, hand to hand combat, rogue agent, spy, computer cracker, machismo, political corruption ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: southeast asia, asia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 38K
Copshop (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: jail cell, hitman, police, assassin, black cop, female warrior, gunfight, arrest, prison, murder, rookie, small town ...
Time: future
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Canada, UK, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.
Style: buddy comedy, action comedy, captivating, tense, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: hitman, chase, on the run, killer, two man army, bodyguard, tough guy, assassin, criminal, one against many, protection, car chase ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, netherlands, london, buckingham palace, manchester ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
 17K
Momentum (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with ...
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female warrior, female protagonist, female assassin, heist, conspiracy, tough girl, hand to hand combat, female killer, one woman army, woman with a gun, bank, robbery ...
Place: cape town south africa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
One in the Chamber (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes, violence spree, chases and races, murder, mob boss, gangster, corruption, mob hit, stalking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, prague, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Hard Target 2 (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Style: suspense, disturbing, brutal, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxer, jungle warfare, female warrior, jungle, muscleman, hunting, hunter, rescue, fight, one man army, courage ...
Time: 2010s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, burma, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 123K
The Foreigner (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA, India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. His relentless search ...
Style: suspense, exciting, harsh, independent film, political ...
Plot: revenge, terrorism, bomb, tough guy, one against many, ira, hand to hand combat, justice, ex special forces, battles, terrorist, martial arts ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: united kingdom, ireland, afghanistan, iraq, northern ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Chain of Command (1994)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Merrill Ross (Michael Dudikoff) is thought to be a C.I.A. agent gone bad and teaming with some other alphabet named agency to take over the oil rich country of Qumir, he finds he's in the middle of a very explosive situation. Not knowing ...
Style: suspense, perverse, grindhouse, dark comedy, independent film ...
Plot: female warrior, cannon, mossad, computer cracker, woman kills a man, bare chested male, woman in jeopardy, fugitive, shootout, crooked businessman, gun fu, mystery woman ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.8
 12K
The Courier (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: female warrior, delivery man, one against many, dark heroine, black ops, ex special forces, femme fatale, revenge, one woman army, mystery woman, haunted by the past, attempted murder ...
Time: 2010s
Place: washington d.c., new york, tower bridge london, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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