Top 19 movies like Root of Evil
Top 19 Movies like Root of Evil
- 1. 10:15
- 2. Gone in a Heartbeat
- 3. The Belgrade Phantom
- 4. Freebie and the Bean
- 5. Exposure
- 6. Yellow Belt Fury
- 7. Savage City: Angel Whisper
- 8. Safehouse
- 9. Broken Allegiance
- 10. Executive Protection
- 11. Zero Tolerance
- 12. A Stranger Is Watching
- 13. In Order of Disappearance
- 14. Mirror
- 15. Shoktir Lorai
- 16. Project A
- 17. Project A: Part II
- 18. River's Edge
- 19. A Force of One
2. Gone in a Heartbeat
When teenage students kidnap Jan Hale they do not mean her any real harm - they just want enough ransom money from her husband Mark to afford a life of luxury. However, when they leave Jan handcuffed to the steering wheel of their car in the freezing cold, they are not aware that she suffers from a potentially fatal heart condition. Mark is racing against time as he and the police play a game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers, aware that he may never see his wife alive again.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. The Belgrade Phantom (Бeоградски фантом)
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979; a mysterious "Phantom" occupies the attention and hearts of Belgrade. Every night, he exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers using a stolen white Porsche car through the city streets.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
4. Freebie and the Bean
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
It has an average vote of 6.098 on TMDB.
5. Exposure
As a young couple fights for survival in the harsh California desert, they confront the choices that brought them to a crossroads in their relationship.
6. Yellow Belt Fury
After Sofia's husband is brutally murdered during a teresterrial invasion, she asks her local sensei to train her in the art of self-defense.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
7. Savage City: Angel Whisper (野獣都市 天使の囁き)
A corrupt cop teams up with an unlikely partner to protect the city from a gang of ruthless drug addicts.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
8. Safehouse
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and now the ex-agent is forced back into the life he left behind to keep the thumb drive from the wrong hands.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
9. Broken Allegiance
Two Sith apprentices, Ruan and Calis, escape the Empire by fleeing the planet Coruscant in a stolen transport. They must fight for their freedom when Darth Vader sends a vicious bounty hunter, Korbain Thor, to track them down.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
10. Executive Protection (Livvakterna)
After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers, and then threatening Sven and his family. With no where else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.
It has an average vote of 6.181 on TMDB.
11. Zero Tolerance (Noll tolerans)
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.
It has an average vote of 6.155 on TMDB.
12. A Stranger Is Watching
A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
13. In Order of Disappearance (Kraftidioten)
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”
It has an average vote of 6.877 on TMDB.
14. Mirror
A teenager suffering from an identity crisis struggles to escape something that haunts her as she tries to find herself in this morally blurred and empty world.
15. Shoktir Lorai (Shoktir Lorai)
Left for dead by the gangsters who murdered his daughter, Dr. Johan Buchi is injected with a special serum that not only saves his life but renders him superhuman.
16. Project A (A計劃)
In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. One Coast Guard officer is Dragon Ma, who is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
17. Project A: Part II (A計劃續集)
Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
18. River's Edge
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
19. A Force of One
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.
It has an average vote of 4.755 on TMDB.