Best movies like Death Chase
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to Death Chase? Leverage your knowledge to help others toward tv shows and movies you've watched before that they might like too. Help broaden the circle of people recommending videos to each other. We value your engagement!
Plot Summary:
After a man's sister is killed by two gunmen who seemingly come out of nowhere, he manages to find and kill them. He then discovers that the men he killed were part of a multi-millionaire's bizarre "death game", where someone is hunted through the streets of Los Angeles by teams of killers who get a big-money prize for killing their quarry--and he realizes that now he is "it".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Death Chase (1988):
Similar in 90%
Princess Madam (1989)
Plot Summary:
Moon Lee takes on the part as Mona, the good cop, when she fights with and against her partner Lisa.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Deathfight (1993)
Plot Summary:
When family fortune, beautiful mistresses and control of an international smuggling operation are at stake, family rivalry turns to rage as two brothers meet in one final battle...a deathfight.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 84%
Mankillers (1987)
Plot Summary:
A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-female squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 78%
Red Sun Rising (1994)
Plot Summary:
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 Yakuza prepares a gang war and weapon smuggling. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, detective, buddy comedy, dark comedy, cult film
Similar in 75%
Hot Ticket (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two beautiful hostages find themselves pitted against cold-blooded killers intent on escaping with a million dollars in 'laundered' currency. Stranded in an alpine wilderness, the hunters and the hunted play an action packed cat and mouse game with the money and their lives hanging in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, independent film
Similar in 88%
Destination Vegas (1995)
Plot Summary:
When an attorney discovers her client committed murder to close a deal she flees to Las Vegas pursued to two relentless hitmen.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 76%
Dreaming the Reality (1991)
Plot Summary:
MOON LEE and YUKARI OSHIMA have been trained as assassins by their adoptive father FOK. The pre-credits sequence details their training at a very early age, and clearly differentiates the personalities of the two girls/women; the vicious nature of their foster brother and the ruthlessness of their mentor FOK.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 83%
Doublecross on Costa's Island (1997)
Plot Summary:
Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu) is tracked down at his home halfway around the world. Through revenge and deception, from Sardinia to Beverly Hills, Costa must ready for a final showdown by finding his way through an intricate web of double crosses, while meeting up with old friends and enemies. If Costa wants to survive and save his home, and island, he will have to fight his way out!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
Invasion Force (1990)
Plot Summary:
A film crew shooting a movie finds itself battling against terrorists trying to take over a city.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter, independent film
Similar in 89%
Death Ring (1992)
Plot Summary:
Ex-Green Beret Matt Collins is kidnapped along with his fiancée, Lauren Sadler, by crazed hunter extraordinaire Danton Vachs. Every year he holds a contest where people can purchase the right to hunt down and kill a human being. This time, Collins is to be the hunted. Vachs uses Lauren as motivation for Collins to really fight to survive and thus provide the buyers with a truly exceptional hunt. Collins is turned loose on an uncharted island and four killers set out to find and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
Similar in 82%
Quiet Cool (1986)
Plot Summary:
This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny of the pot growers. It begins with a surveyor who is leading the town's crooked sheriff to a small marijuana field he has just discovered. The surveyor is killed before he can get there. Joshua, a small boy, sees the execution and tries to get back in time to tell his parents. Unfortunately, the killers murder his family and throw him off a cliff. The boy's aunt, worried at not hearing from her family, gets suspicious and asks an old flame, NY cop Joe Dillon, to investigate. The town sheriff is not pleased by his intrusion and warns him to stay out of it. Dillon disobeys, and that is where all the action comes in.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 79%
Recoil (1998)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ray Morgan accidentally kills the son of a mob boss. The mob boss orders to have Morgan killed unknowing that the assassin killed Morgan's wife and kids. Now Morgan's out for revenge..and he'll do it his own way.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 88%
Redemption (2002)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama
Similar in 76%
Cherry Bomb (2011)
Plot Summary:
An homage to the action films of the early 1980s, Cherry Bomb follows a young dancer and her quest for revenge against the group of men that brutally assaulted her. Seeing no justice coming from within the system Cherry enlists the help of her estranged older brother and some heavy firepower as the two siblings set out on a reckless revenge mission. Things start to spiral out of control when a mysterious hit man named Bull is hired to put an end to Cherry's bloody tirade. She soon realizes that there is more at stake than she ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 80%
Raw Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black comedy, erotic, sexy, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Hunted by Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
An intriguing story of good, evil and the supernatural. The Story takes place in the Florida Everglades. Three men are hunting when an airplane drops bails of drugs on the ground where they are hunting.. The men must decide whether to be law-abiding citizens and report the drugs or take the drugs and sell them for millions of dollars. The lure of easy money entices the hunters into an action packed adventure as drugs dealers-led by Paco, a cold and ruthless Colombian drug lord-chase them in their quest for their precious cargo. Their decision to take the drugs leads them on a spine tingling confrontations with the drugs dealers who both outnumber and out gun them. The hunters must resort to primitive weapons, their combative Martial arts skills and their ingenuity to escape the wrath of the drugs dealers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
Hammerhead (1987)
Plot Summary:
A detective's hunt for the man who murdered his friend takes him to the Caribbean, where he finds himself enmeshed in a web of corruption and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, buddy comedy, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
Similar in 87%
Jungle Assault (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 80%
Friday Foster (1975)
Plot Summary:
Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, hood, crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Demolition High (1996)
Plot Summary:
When a group of terrorists (led by Luther) take over a high school making the students in it their hostages, it is up to several of the students (led by Lenny) to help prevent disaster while the authorities (Slater and General Wainwright) do their part on the other side.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, nostalgic
Similar in 77%
Crooked (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives must protect a beautiful call girl from mob hitmen and a crooked cop.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, cult film
Similar in 90%
Moving Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
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 commit, the man struggles to keep himself alive as he tries to clear his name and find the identity of the real killer. Moving Target also features Bill Murphy, Hilary Kavanagh, and Terry McMahon. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Action
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 89%
Kill Crazy (1989)
Plot Summary:
Five Vietnam vets, on release from a mental hospital, think they're headed for a weekend camping trip. Instead they become target practice for an army of killers playing violent war games. It's a massacre until one of the vets becomes a machine of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 82%
Angels from Hell (1968)
Plot Summary:
Mike (Tom Stern), a biker, returns to California after serving in Vietnam. He uses his war-hero experience to organize a new, united super outlaw gang. When one member is shot by police because he killed a girl at a pot orgy, an all-out cop vs. biker war results. Music by the Peanut Butter Conspiracy and the Lollipop Shoppe.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Private Wars (1993)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy businessman is trying to "convince" the inhabitants of an old neighborhood to abandon their homes in order to build a huge business center there. To achieve his goals, he bribes the police and uses organized bands to intimidate the neighbors. But perhaps this alcoholic ex-cop, Manning, could help them, but how?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Bet Your Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
A man makes a bet in Las Vegas with some men who want to kill him. He bets he can stay alive for 24 hours, then comes to Cleveland to elude them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse
Similar in 77%
Irresistible Force (1993)
Plot Summary:
A police sergant is about to retire. Therefore he only wants to let the time pass by without getting in trouble or even becoming hurt. But this is not so easy as he receives as partner an enthusiastic young, female agent who provokes all kinds of adventures. All the trouble culminates in the confrontation with a group of terrorists who hold an supermarket in hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 80%
Deadly Prey (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ever." Now, he'll have to prove it again. This prey has become DEADLY!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Quick (1993)
Plot Summary:
A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and Quick's untrustworthy boyfriend are on the trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, retro, independent film, psychotronic, surprise ending
Similar in 76%
Black Dawn (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Cold returns, this time he goes Undercover to stop a group of Terrorists before they bomb Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, spiritual, fast, freeze frame