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Plot Summary:
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, perverse, cult classic, neo noir, realistic, surprise ending, serious
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Fighting with Anger (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ray (Fleming) is a young, beautiful and deadly assassin looking for answers about her past. Will (Willie Nelson) is her aging mentor who assigns her to a series of new jobs and may know more about her past than he is letting on. When an innocent woman is killed, Ray is faced with the pain of her past and a new nemesis that emerges from the shadows. Fighting With Anger is a non-stop martial arts action thriller filled with gripping mystery, blazing gun battles, and fast and furious hand-to-hand combat!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 82%
The 355 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Columbian and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: China, USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, action thriller, neo noir, surprise ending
Similar in 76%
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 78%
The Hunter's Prayer (2017)
Plot Summary:
An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, satanic, action thriller, surprise ending, independent film, exciting, neo noir
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Red Sparrow (2018)
Plot Summary:
Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological thriller, sexy, rough, brutal, erotic, sexual, exciting, motivational
Similar in 84%
Everly (2014)
Plot Summary:
After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological, retro, disturbing, grindhouse, hood
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The Villainess (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, art house, cult classic, twisted
Similar in 77%
Hard Target 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, perverse, surprise ending, black comedy
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Fire with Fire (2012)
Plot Summary:
A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against – after being held up at a local convenience store – threatens him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, action thriller, perverse, action adventure, neo noir
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Eliminators (2016)
Plot Summary:
A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send Europe's most dangerous assassin to kill him. Now on the run with his daughters life in jeopardy, a determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from tracks him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating, suspense, perverse, neo noir, independent film, detective, black comedy
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The Courier (2019)
Plot Summary:
This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, exciting, tense, serious, captivating, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, independent film
Similar in 79%
Ava (2020)
Plot Summary:
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, suspense, captivating, disturbing, action thriller, stylized, surprise ending, neo noir
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Kate (2021)
Plot Summary:
After she's irreversibly poisoned, a ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, tense, captivating, disturbing, hood, anamorphic, perverse, mind blowing, neo noir
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
Plot Summary:
In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Sam has no choice but to go rogue to save the life of an innocent 8-year-old girl in the middle of the gang war she has unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, exciting, tense, captivating, absurd, perverse, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic
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Peppermint (2018)
Plot Summary:
A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, brutal, neo noir, independent film, psychological, feel good, emotional, hood, fast paced, deep
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Momentum (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, perverse, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, tension
Similar in 76%
Colombiana (2011)
Plot Summary:
Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, tricky, realistic, fast paced, teen, action thriller, stylized
Similar in 76%
The November Man (2014)
Plot Summary:
An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action thriller, brutal, visually appealing, clever, political, slasher
Similar in 76%
Assassin Club (2023)
Plot Summary:
In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, detective
Similar in 76%
Anna (2019)
Plot Summary:
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, action thriller, captivating, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, psychological, psychological thriller, epic
Similar in 82%
Mile 22 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, surprise ending, political, twist ending, fast paced, anamorphic
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Unlocked (2017)
Plot Summary:
After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised. Running for her life, she turns to a former soldier to help her prevent a lethal biological attack on the citizens of London.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK, USA, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mind bending, political, entertaining, cult classic, neo noir, twisted
Similar in 86%
Copshop (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, perverse, action adventure, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending
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American Assassin (2017)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, exciting, action adventure, tense, suspenseful, bloody, scenic, cult classic, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Plot Summary:
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 204000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, harsh, retro, action thriller, visually stunning, action adventure, aesthetic
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The Foreigner (2017)
Plot Summary:
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA, India
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, harsh, independent film, psychological, bloody, political, sad, scenic, neo western
Similar in 76%
Polar (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, psychological, clever, bloody, scenic, witty
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The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
Plot Summary:
The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 243000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Canada, UK, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, action comedy, captivating, tense, humorous, funny, entertaining, action adventure, relaxing, freeze frame
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Proud Mary (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, retro, hood, surprise ending, neo noir, black cinema
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The Gray Man (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 230000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, UK, Canada, Thailand, Denmark, France, Cambodia, Vietnam
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, perverse, action thriller, neo noir, independent film, black comedy, mysterious