Lone wolves movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant lone wolves movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, rough, realistic, exciting, stylized and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with lone wolves, violence, vengeance, heroes, gun, dialogue, mentor, rivalry, murder and tough guy plots mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lone wolves: Jack Reacher (2012), Drive (2011), Taxi Driver (1976), Valhalla Rising (2009), Léon: The Professional (1994), Solomon Kane (2009), The Equalizer (2014), The Punisher (2004), The Book of Eli (2010), Mechanic: Resurrection (2016).

List of lone wolves movies

 7.0
 347K
Jack Reacher (2012)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, clever, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: investigation, sniper, loner, murder, tough guy, lone wolves, ex military, dishonesty, vigilantism, assassin, gunfight, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, ohio, baghdad iraq
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 7.8
 655K
Drive (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, heist, mechanic, lone wolves, tough heroes, suspense, revenge, loner, organized crime, car, violent, love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 8.2
 849K
Taxi Driver (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style: psychological, bleak, neo noir, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot: character study, loner, violence, vigilante, obsession, alienation, loneliness, vigilantism, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, antisocial behavior ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, vietnam, harlem
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Valhalla Rising (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of ...
Style: bleak, atmospheric, surreal, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: viking, new world, norse mythology, warrior, heroes, lone wolves, mute, escape, misfit, vengeance, violent, captivity ...
Time: middle ages, 10th century, future
Place: jerusalem, europe, scotland, holy land
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Léon: The Professional (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style: neo noir, rough, touching, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: hitman, mentor, organized crime, revenge, friendship, loneliness, murder, sniper, loner, killings, life philosophy, gunfight ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, france, paris france, canada ...
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 6.1
 75K
Solomon Kane (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
Style: dark fantasy, gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sword and sorcery, good versus evil, redemption, supernatural, medieval, chase, violence, black magic, witch, deal with the devil, devil, betrayal ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century
Place: england, europe, north africa
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 7.2
 379K
The Equalizer (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ...
Style: serious, exciting, brutal, tense, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, corruption, hitman, gunfight, loner, assassin, violence, lone hero, one man army, organized crime, tough heroes ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, russia, moscow russia, usa, massachusetts
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 6.4
 163K
The Punisher (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, vengeance, vigilante, vigilantism, lone hero, violence, one man army, superhero, tough guy, lone wolves, mafia, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2003
Place: florida, puerto rico, miami, virginia
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 6.8
 324K
The Book of Eli (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style: futuristic, serious, heroic, biblical, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, religion, faith, lone hero, desert, protector, dystopic future, chaos, future dystopia, bible ...
Time: future, 2040s
Place: usa, san francisco
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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: tense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, chase, lone hero, assassin, tough guy, murder, killer, lone wolves, criminal's revenge, martial arts, fight scenes, assassination ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, australia, usa, southeast asia, bangkok thailand ...
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 5.4
 19K
Bad Ass (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Decorated Vietnam hero Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus (where he protects an elderly black man ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam veteran, lone wolves, society, tough heroes, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, elderly, rivalry, murder, gang, friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 8.6
 103K
Justified (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, dramatic, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug lord, u.s. marshal, justice, fighting crime, officer, white trash, gunfight, lone wolves, tough law enforcer, ex military, ex convict, family feud ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
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 6.4
 170K
Riddick (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, rough, space horror, sweet ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, survival, tough heroes, space, one man army, distopia, space and aliens, heroes, mysterious planet, mercenary, lone wolves, lone hero ...
Time: future
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 6.8
 309K
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, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: car chase, chase, car, tough guy, lone hero, gunfight, martial arts, fight scenes, transportation, escapades, tough heroes, fight ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, hong kong, europe, cannes ...
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Style: atmospheric, thought provoking, art house, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: loneliness, gangsters, mafia, hip hop, african american, samurai, loner, hitman, racial slur, professional killer, friendship, vengeance ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey, africa, brooklyn new york city ...
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 7.7
 259K
First Blood (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, vietnam war, soldier, tough heroes, one man army, police brutality, escape, vietnam veteran, lone wolves, tough guy, manhunt, chase ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, washington state, usa, arizona
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 7.0
 3K
Unforgiven (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880s. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shogunate government, kills many people. His name is infamous in Kyoto. When the battle at Goryoukaku is about to be finished, Jubei disappears. 10 years ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: samurai, lone wolves, bounty hunter, one last job, vengeance, human nature, redemption, hopes, aging, isolation, fight, cowboy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, hokkaido
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 6.4
 491K
Hancock (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, exciting, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: superhero, immortality, supernatural ability, invulnerability, super powers, memory loss, superhuman powers, heroes, lone wolves, superhuman, prison, fight scenes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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 5.2
 207
The Sea Wolf (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min.
Story: The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: ship, castaway, ocean, sailing, survival, lone wolves, self discovery, isolation, violence, sea, storm at sea, social differences ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: pacific ocean
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 8.0
 34K
Wolfwalkers (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads ...
Style: emotional, touching, atmospheric, stylized, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: folklore, friendship, wolf, courage, father daughter relationship, peril, celtic, family relations, good versus evil, legends and myths, human animal relationship, hunter ...
Time: 17th century
Place: ireland
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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, rough, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: alien, space, lone hero, space and aliens, bounty hunter, tough guy, one man army, distant planet, one against many, technology, survival, future dystopia ...
Time: future, near future
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 5.2
 4K
Sniper 3 (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett is the U.S. Marine Corps' most decorated sniper. His has taken out warlords, drug lords, assassins, and bitter foes. This time, he's going after a friend.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: sniper, one man army, lone wolves, betrayal, hitman, terrorism, childhood friend, tough heroes, special agents, heroes, undercover, save the day ...
Place: cambodia, washington d.c., thailand
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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: mafia, small town, gang war, gangsters, violence, betrayal, gunfight, tough guy, gang, prohibition, organized crime, hitman ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1932
Place: texas, mexico, usa, austin texas, latin america
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 4.7
 60K
Jonah Hex (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting ...
Style: stylized, gothic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cowboy, revenge, supernatural, civil war, death, bounty hunter, superhero, american civil war, vengeance, gunslinger, lone wolves, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: usa, virginia, new orleans, south carolina, georgia ...
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 5.1
 35K
Get Carter (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a ...
Style: stylized, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: gangsters, revenge, hitman, murder, vengeance, lone wolves, brutality, rivalry, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, adaptation, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, las vegas, seattle
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 5.6
 57K
Wild Card (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.
Style: suspenseful, stylized, brutal, bad ending, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangsters, revenge, brutality, tough heroes, greed, betrayal, martial arts, lone wolves, redemption, gambling, dishonesty, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, new orleans, usa, nevada
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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: harsh, intense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: revenge, chase, one man army, weapons, violent, rambo, vietnam war, prison, violence, heroes, soldier, military ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, arizona, asia, russia, usa
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, splatter, campy, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, homeless, violence spree, social decay, violence, vigilantism, bum, prostitute, brutality, distopia, fighting crime, vengeance ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: canada, usa, new jersey
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The Man from Nowhere (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named ...
Style: serious, tense, exciting, brutal, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, revenge, one man army, kidnapping, lone hero, drugs, rivalry, suspense, gang, fight, master warrior, organized crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, seoul, south korea
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 6.5
 113K
Safe (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: martial arts, organized crime, chase, lone hero, protector, ex military, gunfight, on the run, justice, mafia, tough heroes, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, new jersey, north america, brooklyn new york city
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