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The Vanquisher (2009)
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The Vanquisher (2009)
Original name: สวยซามูไร
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face her old foes and foil a plot to detonate a bomb in the city.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
Plot: martial arts, terrorism, hitman, secret agents, escapades, save the day, heroes, undercover, law enforcement, women, woman with a gun, female fight, graphic violence, rivalry, assassination attempt, ninja, deadly, danger, profanity, chases and races, off the grid, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia, thailand

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, exciting and serious films with plots about danger, rivalry, heroes, deadly, chases and races, martial arts and undercover mostly in Action, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Vanquisher: Crazy Girls Undercover (2008), The Bodyguard 2 (2007), The Protector 2 (2013), Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002), First Shot (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Crazy Girls Undercover (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film is about a group of Las Vegas sexy showgirls who are undercover agents working with a former C.I.A. agent (Robertson) to stop a terrorist attack.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, sexy, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, terrorism, race against time, rivalry, save the day, escapades, bomb, hunt down, suspense, murder, undercover, terrorist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
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100%
The Bodyguard 2 (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The best agent of Vieng, the country near the boundary of Thailand received the important mission that he had to catch two armed dealers who could be the dangerous for his country.
Style: realistic, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: one man army, undercover, terrorism, law enforcement, working undercover, martial arts, fight, heroes, rivalry, tough heroes, kidnapping, terrorist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, laos
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Protector 2 (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kham is the last in long line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the perfect elephants could successfully help defend the throne, after his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants, Kham ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, heroes, rivalry, daring rescue, escapades, motorcycle chase, fight, protagonist as suspect, medieval, on the run, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, race against time, undercover, terrorism, heroic mission, heroes, confined, escapades, hijacking, bomb, boat, u.s. navy ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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First Shot (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No one knows why the army base was blown up until the President gets shot there during the memorial service for those killed, but he wasn't the only target.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: gunfight, special agents, undercover, save the day, rivalry, terrorism, law enforcement, race against time, renegade, woman with a gun, usa president, fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Shootfighter II (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroes, female fight, working undercover, contests and competitions, law enforcement, ambition, rivalry, master warrior, vengeance, graphic violence, tattoo ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Outside the Law (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Secret agent Julie Cosgrove is walking into her most dangerous mission yet.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, disturbing
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, secret agents, undercover, working undercover, hitman, government agency, heroes, starting over, murder, female agent, suspense ...
Place: usa, florida, colombia
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71%
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Submerged (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, heroic mission, gang, race against time, rivalry, heroes, daring rescue, escapades, save the day, confined, satellite ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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3 Musketeers (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: secret agents, undercover, government agency, save the day, rivalry, escapades, martial arts, female fighter, gunfight, female fight, president, computer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Assassin's Game (2015)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Legendary hitman Vet Jones never expected to accept another mission. But when his son fails to assassinate an important target, and a powerful crime boss gives Jones an ultimatum - finish the job or his son dies - Jones has no choice but to accept. ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sniper, disorder, parents and children, family relations, hitman, graphic violence, master warrior, heroes, on the run, tough heroes, martial arts, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Dragonwolf (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The Devil's Cauldron, a city where depravity and violence has forged a society in which only the lethal and callous can survive, two young men who possess the intellect and ferocity to flourish, carve a name for themselves as the most efficient ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, femme fatale, hitman, rivalry, gangsters, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, siblings relations, chaos and mayhem, violence, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Dangerous Flowers (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Miki, the daughter of a professor and martial arts master is sought after by an organized crime syndicate for her knowledge about the location of a hidden treasure, the Andaman Pearl. Five sexy undercover agents Rose, Lotus, Pouy- sian, Spadix and ...
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Plot: martial arts, undercover, secret agents, daring rescue, save the day, escapades, abduction, hostage, rivalry, pirate, battles, confined ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand
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66%
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April Rain (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, secret agents, government agency, murder, track down, spy, heroes, female nudity, danger, sex in bed
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Steel Sharks (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Submarine crews wage a silent war beneath the waves in this undersea thriller.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, battles, military, confined, rescue, rivalry, terrorism, escapades, daring rescue, heroes, hostage, graphic violence ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Delta Force team are brought in once again to deal with an evil villain in foreign lands.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: terrorism, soldier, medical school, weapon system, battles, heroes, rivalry, confined, military, undercover, rescue, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Con Express (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A hotheaded Alaskan customs agent (Sean Patrick Flannery) unwillingly teams up with a coldhearted but beautiful Soviet agent (Ursula Karven) to capture a rogue Russian general (Arnold Vosloo), selling a shipment of deadly nerve gas. Tensions and ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, manhunt, train, hostage, politics, partners, state affairs, rivalry, escapades, prison, partners against crime, confined ...
Place: usa, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the ...
Style: exciting, realistic, stylized, serious, suspenseful
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, investigation, working undercover, terrorism, race against time, dishonesty, undercover, heroes, master warrior, self mutilation, medieval, sexploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Ancient Warriors (2003)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, death, escapades, vengeance, bio weapon, master warrior, heroes, chase, save the day, cave, helicopter, death of father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Bangkok Assassins (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Five kids fled from a mafia who abused them as beggars. They ended up meeting the great kung fu master who adopted them and taught them how to fight. Now, the kids are grownups and become the magnificent five kung fu fighters who have only one ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, vengeance, youth, rivalry, shaolin kung fu, heroes, young heroes, master warrior, teenage life, graphic violence, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Air Rage (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, realistic
Plot: terrorism, airplane, daring rescue, save the day, government agency, rivalry, hostage, air disaster, hijacking, airplane hijack, escape, graphic violence ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Yakuza-Busting Girls: Duel in Hell (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Asami returns exhausted after three years of intense training to become a yakuza hunter. She decides to visit her old master, Inokuma, who runs a bar. However, she finds his place in ruins and nothing is as it was when she left. As it turns out, the ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: homecoming, one man army, hitman, heroes, samurai, rivalry, gang, psychopath, gambling, mortal combat, dishonesty, female fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Hawk's Vengeance (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Eric Hawke a British Marine, attends the funeral of his policeman brother who he discovers has been attempting to investigate the mysterious kidnappings and murders of a local Asian street gang. The clues seem to point to a rival Nazi white ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, murder, marine, hitman, vigilante, tough heroes, battles, law enforcement, track down, heroes, undercover, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Covert Operation (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, he travels between the border of China and North Korea, where the mission takes a turn for the worst.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: secret agents, undercover, soldier, rivalry, rescue attempt, behind enemy lines, escapades, military base, plan, suspense, war, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Mandrill (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mandrill (M. Zaror) is a high-level assassin whose parents many years ago were slaughtered in cold blood by a ruthless drug lord. Now he finds himself finally in a position to get his revenge. But since it falls in love precisely in the pretty ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, hitman, vengeance, escapades, rivalry, fall in love, suspense, spy, seductive man, seductive behavior, seduction, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
A Serious Shock! Yes Madam! (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Though policewoman Hsie Wan-chin (Cynthia Yang Li-ching) is merrily planning for her wedding with fellow cop Wilson Tsiang (Lawrence Ng Kai-wah), he is having an illicit affair with her best friend, May (Moon Lee). When Wilson tries to break things ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, strong female presence, graphic violence, love and romance, violence spree, dishonesty, fugitives, law enforcement, betrayal, love triangle, vengeance, frame up ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Lethal (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A sexy and lethal female mercenary takes on an international syndicate of weapons smugglers run by the Russian Mafia.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female martial artist, save the day, rescue, confined, government agency, espionage, undercover, one man army, secret agents, law enforcement, dishonesty, female gunfighter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Peacekeeper (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, suspense, race against time, nuclear threat, chase, secret agents, state affairs, government agency, law enforcement, daring rescue, save the day, heroic mission ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c., pentagon, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Guillotines (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China, Haiti, Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story: During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng established a secret assassination squad known as the Guillotines to eliminate all who opposed him. Once heavily favored by the Emperor, the Guillotines are deemed expendable once Emperor ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political unrest, hitman, assassination, military, soldier, qing dynasty, martial arts, save the day, fight, kung fu, chinese mythology, strong violent content ...
Time: 18th century
Place: china, ancient china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Spitfire (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A sultry assassin is the target of two separate operatives in this globe-trotting action flick shot on location in the Bahamas, Athens, Rome and Hong Kong.
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, cult film ...
Plot: female fighter, spy, assassin, female fight, woman with a gun, martial arts, journalism, secret agents, espionage, terrorism, escapades, undercover ...
Time: 90s
Place: bahamas, hong kong, rome italy, europe, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Search and Destroy (1988)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: SEARCH AND DESTROY (1988) - Terrorists destroy a chemical factory. A virus is released that infects the people of the town with a strange psychosis. Stars Joe Ambrose, Tom Banks and Peter Drinco
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, virus, contamination, factory, heroes, rivalry, chases and races, deadly, danger
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%