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, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough and stylized films and TV shows about / with lone wolves, violence, rivalry, vengeance, murder, heroes, gun, gunfight, dialogue and chase plots mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lone wolves: Drive (2011), Valhalla Rising (2009), The Jackal (1997), Jack Reacher (2012), Justified (2010), Bad Ass (2012), Léon: The Professional (1994), Shoot 'Em Up (2007), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Taxi Driver (1976).

List of lone wolves movies

 7.8
 756K
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, tense, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, adult
Plot: car chase, revenge, mechanic, loner, heist, danger, lone wolves, organized crime, tough heroes, robbery, chases and races, neighbor ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iran, usa
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Valhalla Rising (2009)
Genre: 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: surreal, disturbing, bleak, art house, brutal ...
Plot: viking, danger, norse mythology, death, lone wolves, warrior, vengeance, mute, all male cast, violence, nordic, new world ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 10th century, year 2009, ancient times ...
Place: jerusalem, highlands, scotland, europe, holy land
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 6.4
 131K
The Jackal (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
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: suspenseful, realistic, serious, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination attempt, revenge, killer, chase, professional killer, assassination, contract killer, hired killer, terrorism, gangster ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: chicago, washington d.c., russia, moscow russia, montreal ...
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 7.0
 389K
Jack Reacher (2012)
Genre: Action, 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: detective, exciting, suspenseful, serious, saga ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: loner, sniper, one man army, investigation, murder, vigilante, vigilantism, lone hero, hitman, tough guy, expert, gunfight ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, iraq, seattle, pennsylvania, usa ...
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 8.6
 129K
Justified (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 45 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: captivating, serious, crime drama, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: justice, gunfight, u.s. marshal, fighting crime, officer, lone wolves, drug lord, small town, shooting, tough law enforcer, ex convict, family feud ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kentucky, south america, usa
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 5.5
 20K
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, captivating, exciting, suspense, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: lone wolves, vigilante, vigilantism, vietnam veteran, revenge, murder, rivalry, elderly, tough heroes, gang, vietnam war, friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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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, touching, rough, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: hitman, mentor, revenge, friendship, murder, loneliness, organized crime, redemption, sniper, loner, life philosophy, dark hero ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, france, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
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 6.6
 159K
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
Style: bloody, sexy, grindhouse, action packed, cult classic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, one man army, dark humor, shootout, sex scene, gun fu, violent, corruption, anti hero, rescue, prostitute, assassin ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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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: action packed, saga, exciting, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens
Plot: dystopia, alien, bounty hunter, lone hero, outer space, space and aliens, one man army, distant planet, space opera, one against many, tough guy, space ...
Time: future, year 2004, near future, 2000s
Place: space western
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 8.2
 1.0M
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, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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 6.4
 179K
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, stylized, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, vengeance, vigilante, lone hero, violence, vigilantism, superhero, one man army, tough guy, mafia, crime fighter, hitman ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2003
Place: florida, puerto rico, miami, virginia
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 5.4
 223
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, realistic, serious
Plot: ship, ocean, storm at sea, violence, sea, castaway, survival, lone wolves, danger, self discovery, isolation, social differences ...
Time: year 2008, 1900s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: pacific ocean
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 7.3
 461K
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, suspense, brutal, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot: vigilante, vigilantism, corruption, hitman, assassin, one man army, gunfight, justice, lone hero, violence, loner, revenge ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, moscow russia, massachusetts, usa, russia
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, 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: grindhouse, disturbing, dark comedy, sexy, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vigilante, vigilantism, gory, homeless, violence spree, social decay, fighting crime, violence, bum, prostitute, brutality, vengeance ...
Time: year 2011, 80s, 21st century
Place: nova scotia, usa, canada, new jersey
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 6.1
 80K
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, dark, gothic horror, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sword and sorcery, redemption, good versus evil, chase, supernatural, lone hero, medieval, violence, witch, deal with the devil, vengeance, murder ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century, middle ages, year 2009, medieval times
Place: england, europe, north africa
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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: brutal, bloody, touching, emotional, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, girls' night, teens
Plot: revenge, one man army, violent, martial arts, lone hero, kidnapping, gang, rivalry, child in peril, assassin, master warrior, drug lord ...
Time: year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, east asia, asia, seoul
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 8.0
 65K
Le Samurai (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style: neo noir, detective, sexy, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: loner, hitman, assassination, chase, professional killer, lone wolves, gangster, surveillance, police investigation, murder, assassin, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 6.8
 336K
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: action thriller, sexy, stylized, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot: car chase, chase, tough guy, one man army, lone hero, tough heroes, escapades, car, transportation, martial arts, fight scenes, revenge ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2002, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, saint tropez, cannes, europe ...
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 8.0
 44K
Wolfwalkers (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, France, China, USA
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: touching, emotional, atmospheric, stylized, visually stunning ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, date night, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: folklore, wolf, friendship, father daughter relationship, celtic, wolf pack, peril, legends and myths, family relations, happy ending, human animal relationship, hunter ...
Time: 17th century
Place: ireland, europe
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 6.8
 359K
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, apocalyptic, road movie, heroic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, lone hero, religion, protector, end of the world, dystopia, dystopic future, chaos ...
Time: future, year 2010, near future, distant future, 2040s ...
Place: indiana, usa, san francisco
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 7.1
 27K
Tracker (2024)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.
Style: suspenseful, detective, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Plot: private detective, lone wolves, survivalist, crime investigation, crime scene, criminal underworld, amateur detective, true crime, fighting crime, crime fighter, investigation, road trip ...
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 5.5
 805
Lone Hero (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Western Hero when a biker gang descends upon a small Montana town.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, tough heroes, small town, fighting crime, vigilantism, lone wolves, leadership, gang, danger, heroes, rivalry, good versus evil ...
Time: 19th century
Place: montana
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 6.4
 185K
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: suspenseful, rough, saga, space horror, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, survival, tough heroes, space, space opera, one man army, space and aliens, danger, alien planet, mysterious planet, heroes, mercenary ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s
Place: space western
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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Style: atmospheric, scenic, epic, meditative, factual ...
Audience: manly
Plot: wilderness, survival, native, hunting, mountain man, native american, revenge, mountain, rocky mountains, grizzly bear, indians, trapper ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, 1850s, year 1972
Place: colorado, persia, usa, north america
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 8.2
 142K
Yojimbo (1961)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant ...
Style: black comedy, visually stunning, visual, cynical, art house ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, sword fight, small town, bodyguard, swordsman, one against many, gang war, ronin, mercenary, gangster, lone wolves, martial arts ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1860s, future, year 1961 ...
Place: japan, persia, asia, india, tokyo
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Trigun #1: The $$60,000,000,000 Man (1998)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Canada
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Trigun takes place in the distant future on a deserted planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless he has a $60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival. But the real Vash the ...
Style: anime, stylized, humorous, manga, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: ethics, desert planet, heroes, insurance, lone wolves, save the day, spirit, unrequited love, bounty, rescue, good versus evil, cyberpunk ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: space western
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Escape from L.A. (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalyptic, dystopia, race against time, post apocalypse, heroic mission, escape, dystopian future, one man army, earthquake, apocalypse, catastrophe, lone wolves ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, latin america ...
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 5.2
 39K
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: revenge, hitman, gangster, brutality, murder, videotaped sex, vengeance, lone wolves, assassin, killer, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, seattle, las vegas
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 5.7
 144K
Gamer (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate ...
Style: futuristic, action packed, stylized, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: distopia, mind control, virtual reality, cyberpunk, cyberspace, hacker, profanity, dystopian future, computer game, death, danger, contests and competitions ...
Time: 2030s, year 2009, near future, 2000s, future ...
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 7.0
 157K
Highlander (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
Style: sexy, perverse, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: immortality, mentor, sword fight, medieval, good versus evil, magic, immortal, sorcery, master warrior, sword and sorcery, fight scenes, mythology ...
Time: 80s, middle ages, 20th century, medieval times, 18th century ...
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, europe, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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