Movies like The American

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The American (2010)
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The American (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, tense, stylized, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, talky, visually appealing, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hitman, one last job, nudity, sniper, spy, betrayal, anti hero, loner, assassination, assassin, small town, moral dilemma, prostitute, intrigue, skinny dipping, assassination plot, bare butt, love affair, mind game, espionage, sex, mafia, killer, character study, great ending ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century, contemporary
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, canada, california
Keyword: sweden, american, english, watching a movie, gangsters, operation

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Most similar movies to The American

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about murder, violence, hitman, assassin, blood, pistol and shot in the chest mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like The American: The Day of the Jackal (1973), Collateral (2004), The Mechanic (2011), The Gunman (2015), Melancholia (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style: political thriller, exciting, suspenseful, political, atmospheric ...
Plot: conspiracy, terrorism, espionage, hitman, assassin, politics, terrorist plot, investigation, police investigation, serial killer, terrorist, assassination ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, year 1973, 60s
Place: paris france, france, algeria, europe, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 431K
Collateral (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style: neo noir, clever, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: hitman, hostage, taxi driver, taxi, killer, twists and turns, killings, sociopath, assassin, merciless, murderer, nihilism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, persia, usa
⇓ 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%
 5.8
 43K
The Gunman (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his ...
Style: intense, suspense, exciting, rough, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, chase, hitman, agent as target, gangster, gunfight, undercover, danger, conspiracy, home invasion, betrayal, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006, year 2014, 21st century
Place: south africa, europe, barcelona, london, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Melancholia (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Art critic Krabbé, a German ex-pat living in London, is confronted by his radical 1960s past when he's asked to assassinate a Chilean murderer who is on a visit to London. Krabbé's anti-hero is spot on and his increasing struggle with ...
Style: independent film
Plot: paranoia, frustration, melancholy, death squad, torturer, depression, art critic, assassination, discussion, moral dilemma, terrorist group, war criminal ...
Place: chile, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 76K
Nikita (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Style: neo noir, suspense, stylized, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female assassin, hitman, female killer, spy, mentor, assassin, undercover, secret government organization, impossible love, bodyguard, training, woman with a gun ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france, venice, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A History of Violence (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style: neo noir, harsh, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Audience: date night, manly
Plot: gangster, self defense, revenge, sex scene, violent, small town, mobster, mafia, attempted robbery, organized crime, redemption, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: indiana, philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.4
 124K
The Jackal (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI boss and a former IRA terrorist.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination attempt, chase, revenge, cold war, terrorism, lone wolves, assassination, gangster, conspiracy, murder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: chicago, washington d.c., russia, montreal, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Thailand
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe (Cage) always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in ...
Style: intense, action packed, suspense, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, betrayal, assassination, redemption, wing chun, transformation, danger, runaway, gangster, killer, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: asia, thailand, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 70K
The Specialist (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, hitman, sex scene, haunted by the past, organized crime, rivalry, danger, assassin, spy, vengeance, revenge, erotica ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Pistol Whipped (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gambling, spy, aikido, downfall, danger, introspection, life is a bitch, dishonesty, redemption, father daughter relationship, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.3
 194K
Layer Cake (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style: neo noir, intense, clever, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, murder, chase, sex, drug, drug lord, caper, plot twist, violence, drug addiction, organized crime ...
Time: year 2004, 60s, 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, amsterdam, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, revenge, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, cop, male pubic hair, chase, hitman, organized crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Assassination Games (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: kickboxing, hitman, assassin, vengeance, assassination, chases and races, sniper, gang rape, martial arts, one against many, revenge, tragic hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bucharest, ukraine, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
 177K
Hitman (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic ...
Style: serious, exciting, action packed, stylized, fast paced ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: hitman, killer, sniper, one man army, assassin, danger, assassination, fight scenes, revenge, computer game, conspiracy, cia ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: soviet union, europe, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, political, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: secret service, obsession, election, assassin, assassination attempt, conspiracy, assassination of president, assassination plot, president, gunfight, hitman, terrorism ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1992
Place: washington d.c., california, los angeles, usa, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The November Man (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: cia, secret service, spy, espionage, conspiracy, hostage, brutality, secret agent, female agent, surveillance, assassin, violence ...
Time: year 2008, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: montenegro, belgrade serbia, switzerland, usa, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Point of No Return (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female assassin, hitman, espionage, female warrior, female killer, female martial artist, murder, female spy, death penalty, chase, kick-butt women, spy ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: washington d.c., new orleans, california, venice, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Memory of a Killer (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, detective, psychological, rough ...
Plot: hitman, murder, memory loss, assassin, unlikely partners, law enforcement, one last job, mental illness, twists and turns, serial killer, killer, young love ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 90s, 20th century
Place: antwerp, belgium, europe, brussels, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Last Man Standing (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith ...
Style: neo noir, stylized, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, gang war, small town, betrayal, shootout, violence, one man army, gunfight, tough guy, one against many, prohibition ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1932
Place: texas, mexico, usa, austin texas, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous ...
Style: brutal, suspense, bloody, exciting, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, revenge, assassin, lone hero, one man army, one against many, weapons, tough guy, violence, hand to hand combat, dark hero, vengeance ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: italy, new york, north america, manhattan new york city, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.2
 21K
Cleanskin (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry's briefcase full of Semtex explosives and ...
Style: tense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, manhunt, spy, undercover, fighting crime, conspiracy, danger, rivalry, society, secret service agent, undercover agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, britain, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
 145K
Payback (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, black comedy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, money, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, anti hero, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, violence ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 7.1
 197K
Desperado (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner.
Style: stylized, grindhouse, action packed, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, lone hero, dark hero, hitman, vigilante, one against many, gangster, gory, musician, badass, gunfight, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.4
 38K
Thief (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style: neo noir, cerebral, cult classic, retro, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, safecracker, mafia, organized crime, heist, character study, criminal, bank robber, great ending, betrayal, bank, hustler ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.5
 5K
The Courier (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: hitman, danger, extortion, revenge, arms dealer, rivalry, murder, chase, twists and turns, killer, martial arts, woman with a gun ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, las vegas, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 16K
The Mechanic (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes ...
Style: exciting, tense, fast paced, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, killer, hired killer, murder, car chase, espionage, revenge, explosions, death, betrayal, assassination ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: naples italy, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.4
 135K
Killer Elite (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, hitman, secret service, mentor, conspiracy, hostage, undercover, rescue, espionage, mercenary, secret agent, assassination ...
Time: year 2011, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: middle east, london, australia, iran, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.4
 14K
Crying Freeman (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in ...
Style: emotional, exciting, suspenseful, anime, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, martial arts, police investigation, assassin, danger, murder, rivalry, transformation, violence, revenge, redemption ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, china, san francisco, vancouver, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.7
 387K
Man on Fire (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save ...
Style: suspense, tense, brutal, exciting, emotional ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, kidnapping, vengeance, vigilante, cia, vigilantism, friendship, mercenary, lone hero, redemption, justice, child in peril ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico, mexico city, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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