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Plot Summary:
After saving Casey, a daughter of his friend, from hired assassins, Jack Devlin is hit with a strange phobia - fear of white color. But when his other friend, who works as a bodyguard for a supermodel, is wounded, Jack decides to step in for him. Now he must confront his fear and the assassin, who seems to be well aware of Jack's problem.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Best tv shows and movies like Blackjack (1998):
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Direct Action (2004)
Plot Summary:
Frank Gannon, a veteran cop, is being hunted by his fellow police officers after they learned he has betrayed the brotherhood and exposed to the feds wide scale corruption of the LAPD. He has one day left to prove his case and survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, cult classic, fast, detective, cult film
Similar in 77%
The Russian Specialist (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, satanic, perverse, action packed
Similar in 89%
Thunder Island (1963)
Plot Summary:
A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: political, independent film
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Similar in 76%
The Hitman (1991)
Plot Summary:
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, fast
Similar in 82%
Action Jackson (1988)
Plot Summary:
Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, black comedy, action comedy, psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hidden Assassin (1995)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, black comedy
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Deadly Outbreak (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dutton Hatfield, played by Jeff Speakman, is working for the American embassy. He finds himself inside a biochemical weapon laboratory when terrorists headed by Colonel Baron (played by TimeCop villain Ron Silver) take over the place. Baron is looking for a sample of a deadly virus that is being developed inside the facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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One in the Chamber (2012)
Plot Summary:
A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller, action packed, rough, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 77%
Silent Trigger (1996)
Plot Summary:
Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Detention (2003)
Plot Summary:
A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, fast
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Naked Weapon (2002)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of assassinations begin to occur, Jack suspects that Madame M is back in business.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, erotic, perverse, stylized, fast, independent film
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Malone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William Wingate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, neo noir, perverse, visually stunning, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Dark Angel (1990)
Plot Summary:
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, christmas horror, tech noir, perverse, cult classic
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The Cutter (2005)
Plot Summary:
A former cop turned Los Angeles P.I. takes on a case of a missing diamond cutter that leads him on an adventure of love and villainy spanning of mob to the present day Jewelry District.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, action packed, bleak, realistic, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 80%
No Contest (1995)
Plot Summary:
A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense
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Crying Freeman (1995)
Plot Summary:
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 love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: emotional, exciting, suspenseful, anime, suspense, stylized, touching, manga, perverse, cult classic
Similar in 84%
The Package (2012)
Plot Summary:
A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Out of Reach (2004)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing, a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Billy heads to Poland to figure out why -- only to discover that the orphanage that Irina was staying in, which is financed by honest -- and unsuspecting -- good-intentioned Samaritans, is a cover for a human trafficking network.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, tense, captivating, spiritual, action packed, surprise ending, neo noir
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Skin Trade (2014)
Plot Summary:
After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests. NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action thriller, action adventure, fast, surprise ending
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Assassination Games (2011)
Plot Summary:
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 Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, intense, cult classic, surprise ending, neo noir
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Code of Silence (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film
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Hard to Kill (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, rough, realistic, fast
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Mask of Death (1996)
Plot Summary:
While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies in a car crash shortly thereafter. The FBI persuades McKenna to undergo facial surgery and take the place of Lyle Mason in order to find Dallio and a valuable microchip.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
Similar in 89%
Maximum Force (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
Similar in 83%
Deadly Target (1994)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese gangster in Los Angeles escapes on the eve of his deportation to Hong Kong. A martial-arts master detective and his ragtag team get caught up in the action as they track down this ruthless killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, crime drama, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective
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6 Bullets (2012)
Plot Summary:
An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, action packed, independent film, exciting, surprise ending
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Marked for Death (1990)
Plot Summary:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, grindhouse, intense, hood, cult classic
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A Better Way to Die (2000)
Plot Summary:
Boomer (Wiper) is a rookie cop based in the urban hellhole that is downtown Chicago. After his involvement in a drug bust operation which results in the death of Carlos (Carmen Argenziano), his mentor and father figure, Boomer becomes disillusioned with the brutal and inhumane nature of his job. Consequently, he decides to hand in his resignation to the Chicago Police Department and return to his home town of Joliet, where his fiancé, Kelly (Natasha Henstridge), awaits.While en route back to Joliet, however, Boomer makes a grievous error in judgment when he stops for, and assists, an unfortunate motorist whose vehicle appears to have broken down; the naive ex-cop is swiftly attacked and rendered unconscious. Boomer awakes to find that his car and wallet have been stolen, and that he has become involved in a dangerous game of mistaken identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, surprise ending, road movie, neo noir, independent film
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7 Seconds (2005)
Plot Summary:
When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending, rough, fast, neo noir, independent film, black comedy
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Captured (2000)
Plot Summary:
Matt Hendricks (Dolph Lundgren) is the US Navy's top Marine Special Operations Commander and is facing his toughest challenge yet - Escorting the deadliest viral weapon on the planet back to a safe Storage Faciliy.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, exciting, fast, surprise ending, double entendre