Movies like Back in Business 1997

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Back in Business (1997)
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Back in Business (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An ex-cop gets pulled back in an undercover mission for the FBI by his former partner. The mission is to catch drug runners, but it is also sting operation against dirty cops, some of whom set up the ex-cops' dismissal from the force.
Style: independent film
Plot: basketball, buddy cop, martial arts, heroes, tough guy, african american, mission, cell phone, ak 47, machine gun, brawl, car, fistfight, black american, sidekick, mixed martial arts, black hero, two man army, pistol, kicked in the crotch, semiautomatic pistol, sunglasses, beretta, fighting, trailer ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, suspenseful, exciting and serious films with plots about fistfight, martial arts, violence, brawl, tough guy, heroes and pistol mostly in Action, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Back in Business: Crackerjack 3 (2000), Last to Surrender (1998), Bloodfist V: Human Target (1994), Indio 2 - The Revolt (1991), Unmasking the Idol (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crackerjack 3 (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of retired spies once former enemies, are forced to work together in an attempt to retrieve a neutron bomb stolen by a group of new-wave, high-tech operatives who have supplanted them in the post-Cold War intelligence game.
Plot: spy, violence, machine gun, pistol, blood, heroes, karate, terrorism, terrorist group, fistfight, gunfight, brawl ...
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95%
Last to Surrender (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A maverick American cop and his Chinese counterpart join forces to bring a drug dealer and his hired thugs to justice.
Style: crime drama, independent film
Plot: buddy cop, triad, shootout, cop, wrestling, action violence, karate, fistfight, gunfight, tough guy, shooting, buddy ...
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94%
Bloodfist V: Human Target (1994)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Don "The Dragon" Wilson struggles to regain his memory, not knowing who to trust, or even which side he's fighting on.
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, spy, exploitation, shootout, one man army, karate, ak 47, duel, fight, brawl, martial artist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Indio 2 - The Revolt (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built through their lands. The mercenaries resort to murder, massacres and enslavement to rid the ...
Plot: jungle, mercenary, rain forest, environmental, indigenous people, environmental destruction, black hero, tough guy, helicopter, martial arts, ex marine, brawl ...
Place: south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Unmasking the Idol (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Duncan Jax must stop the evil terrorist Scarlet Leader from acquiring nuclear bombs that could start WW3. Together with the trusty baboon, Boon, he takes on the almost impossible mission! He must steal the gold that Scarlet leader plans to use to ...
Style: retro, independent film, exciting, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: ninja, spy, battles, martial arts, terrorism, heroes, heroic mission, battle zone, war, escapades, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Hour of Valor (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, one man army, political conspiracy, state affairs, law enforcement, confined, undercover, race against time, save the day, danger, secret agent ...
Place: washington d.c., france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Guilty as Charged (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, military base, soldier, gang, rivalry, undercover, military life, secret agent, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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One Man Army (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Kickboxing champ Jerry Trimble plays a straight shooting man caught up in the politics of a crooked little town. To get to the truth about his grandfather's death, he must first kick out the criminals --including the sheriff-- effectively ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, exploitation, brawl, nudity, shootout, sheriff, lawyer, bare breasts, african american, female nudity, pistol, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Trained To Kill (1989)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, vengeance, shootout, criminal, vietnam veteran, helicopter, crime boss, death of father, motorcycle, ex soldier, murder, training ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, spy, exploitation, woman, vigilante, heroic bloodshed, martial artist, karate, kickboxer, fistfight, one man army ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Eliminator (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, martial arts, survival, one man army, heroes, chase, one against many, island, rivalry, danger, escapades, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Fury of the Dragon (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature.
Style: independent film
Plot: kung fu, two man army, masked vigilante, villain, tough guy, vigilante justice, brawl, martial arts, fight, masked superhero, kung fu fighting, vigilante ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Nam Angels (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Lt. Vance Calhoun takes on a dangerous rescue mission of American P.O.W.s in the treacherous Darloc Valley in Vietnam. His only chance to escape is with the help of five young, fearless soldiers on motorcycles.
Style: independent film
Plot: biker, vietnam war, exploitation, bike, rescue mission, motorcycle, shootout, firefight, special forces, pow, battles, heroes ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
No Retreat, No Surrender 2 (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, intense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master warrior, martial arts, kung fu, kidnapping, jungle, heroes, daring rescue, danger, hand to hand combat, fistfight, martial artist, kickboxing ...
Time: 80s
Place: cambodia, asia, bangkok thailand, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Finds Indy vagabonding around the South Pacific on a treasure hunt for a fabled lost diamond. The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, fast
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot: treasure hunt, indiana jones, adventurer, writers, treasure hunter, archaeologist, pirate, heroes, battlefield, world spanning, disorder, secret place ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918, year 1919, 1900s
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and ...
Style: fast, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, dojo, die hard, home invasion, hostage, gangster, heroes, master warrior, heroic mission, fighting crime, forgery, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Ninja Destroyer (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A lucrative emerald mine and the various protagonists who are struggling to wrest control of it for their own profitable ends.
Plot: ninja, gun fu, shootout, sex, pistol, male nudity, hotel, bare breasts, blood, female nudity, violence, katana ...
Time: year 1986
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53%
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Memorial Day (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An embittered satellite expert gets the opportunity for revenge against the USA by aiding terrorists in a plan to destroy the country's military base.
Style: independent film
Plot: die hard, evil computer, holiday horror, revenge, kung fu, hand to hand combat, irony of fate, heroes, master warrior, blood, good versus evil, machine gun ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero (1994)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Terrorists take over a nuclear weapons launch site, but don't count on a humble military courier, who happens to be making a visit
Style: independent film
Plot: kickboxing, die hard, exploitation, fight, combat, showdown, female nudity, bare breasts, heroes, master warrior, terrorist, terrorism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Redemption (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: tough guy, tough cop, heroes, warrior, drug dealing, martial arts, brutality, police brutality, gunfight, showdown, gangster, woman with a gun ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Talons of the Eagle (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After 3 DEA agents are killed by crime boss Mr. Li (Hong), the DEA reluctantly calls in New York cop and martial arts expert Tyler Wilson (Blanks) and sends him undercover on assignment to Toronto to team up with Canadian vice cop Michael Reeds ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, bare chested male, shootout, nudity, gunfight, fistfight, asian woman, brawl, martial artist, dea, beefcake ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, new york, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Delta Force 3: The Killing Game (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A terrorist places an atom bomb somewhere in an American metropolis. The president of the U.S. has no other choice; he has to call Delta Force.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, gunfight, martial arts, cavalry, military, heroes, tough heroes, nightmare comes true, heroic mission, hijacking, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Spy Duncan Jax thwarts a cabal of neo-nazis
Style: cult classic, perverse, political thriller, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: spy, ninja, secret agent, good versus evil, heroes, baboon, disorder, escapades, rivalry, chases and races, undercover, danger ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Moving Target (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action drama as a tourist who, through no fault of his own, finds himself on the run from a gang of terrorists, international espionage agents, and the police. Accused of a murder he didn't ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: murder, terrorist, fight, terrorism, revenge, gunfight, manhunt, kickboxing, kung fu, heroes, master warrior, showdown ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Karate Raider (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jake Turner is back on a rescue mission to liberate an attractive female Drug Enforcement officer captured and held prisoner by an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia.
Plot: jungle, drug, special forces, shootout, heroes, master warrior, village, commando, karate, soldier, damsel in distress, blood ...
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Dune Warriors (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water
Style: apocalyptic, perverse, independent film, neo western, psychotronic
Plot: post apocalypse, female warrior, female fighter, desert, warlord, tough guy, future war, mixed martial arts, duel, wasteland, apocalypse, distopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons ...
Style: independent film, tv series pilot
Plot: terrorism, undercover, model, spy, woman with a gun, virus, female spy, female agent, gunfight, fistfight, jungle, terrorist group ...
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Snake Eater III: His Law (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Vietnam vet named soldier is hired to find a biker gang called Hell's Fury, which kidnapped, drugged, and raped a young girl, and exact revenge.
Style: perverse, independent film
Plot: kickboxer, biker, male objectification, martial arts, mixed martial arts, hand to hand combat, sex, kickboxing, caught having sex, sex on first date, bare chested male, vietnam veteran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A former CIA agent lives a suburban life as a high school teacher with his teen son. When the agent is attacked by former allies because of knowledge he possesses and his son is kidnapped, he is forced back into the business and his son suddenly ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic, suspense
Plot: die hard, kickboxing, spy, boat, exploitation, betrayal, combat, showdown, teacher, machine gun, chase, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Red Sun Rising (1994)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Thomas Hoshino (Willson) is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho (Lew). He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder (Farrell). Soon they discover that ...
Style: detective, independent film, crime drama, dark comedy, buddy comedy
Plot: yakuza, martial arts, swordsman, police shootout, fistfight, nypd, katana, manhunt, kung fu, violence, police, kendo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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