20 best movies like Lord of War (2005)

List of the best movies like Lord of War (2005): War Dogs, The Jackal, Jackie Brown, Black Dog, The Gunman, Bastille Day, American Renegades, The Trust, Heist, A Most Violent Year.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, biography
CountryUSA, Cambodia, Romania
Duration02:11

    Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
    Duration02:04

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money for herself. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel “Rum Punch”.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
    Duration01:29

    An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:24

    Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
    Duration02:25

    Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, military
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
    Duration02:19

    In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidden at the bottom of a lake in Serbia.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration02:05

    A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:58

    An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime, biography, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, China, Cambodia, USA, Germany
    Duration02:05

    The true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand's most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in Muay Thai tournaments.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration02:51

    The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:43

    Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:00

      A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:36

      After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:45

      An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:09

        The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Norway, China, Canada, USA, France
        Duration01:59

        The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genreaction, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:23

        After a group of Irish mobsters in Hell's Kitchen are sentenced to jail, their wives take their place—and do as good of a job, if not better.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Germany, Sweden
        Duration01:55

        In Stockholm, Sweden, hacker Lisbeth Salander is hired by Frans Balder, a computer engineer, to retrieve a program that he believes it is too dangerous to exist.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        Watermelon farmer Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson) goes after the Mob, when they try to strong arm him to use their melon picking crew.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:49

        On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryCanada, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:39

        Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:43

        High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they'll live through the night.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryColombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Luxembourg, France

        During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration02:33

        A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:34

        A young boy finds a powerful otherworldly weapon, which he uses to save his older adoptive brother from a crew of thugs. Before long, the two of them are also pursued by federal agents and mysterious mercenaries aiming to reclaim their asset.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, western, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:40

          A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration01:49

          When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when all Vetter can focus on is revenge.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany, France
          Duration02:01

          Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryIndonesia, France, USA
          Duration02:30

          After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration02:01

          Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:15

          Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy. Inspired by real events.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
          Duration02:07

          Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:35

          Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and the whole city.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genreaction, drama, crime
          CountryIndia

          A group of counter-terrorism agents are brought in to track down a man who was once the head of their squad, and is believed to have gone rogue.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, China
          Duration02:33

          Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has spent the last 10 years in prison planning revenge for the murder of his brother. Now that Driver is free to carry out his deadly plan only two men stand in his way- Billy Bob Thornton plays a veteran cop and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, a crazy hitman. With those two close on his trail, Driver races to carry out his mission as the mystery surrounding his brothers murder deepens.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, South Africa
          Duration01:25

          A parolee (Paul Walker) becomes the target of a massive police manhunt after inadvertently picking up a rental car with a female whistleblower tied up in the trunk. Now, as the police attempt to silence the woman before she can testify about the city's rampant corruption, the ex-con who just regained his freedom must defend her life, and clear his own name.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryFrance, Germany, USA, Japan
          Duration01:56

          An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA

          One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:56

          Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          Wellman Santee (Dolph Lundgren) a former race car driver, whose livelihood is transporting exotic stolen super cars, is involved, with his partner Eddie, in shoot out, resulting in the deaths of his friend and a highway cop. Santee is framed for the cop's murder and jailed in a maximum security prison. A few months later, Santee breaks out after narrowly escaping an attempt on his life. He reaches a local diner where he steals a car, abducts the owner, Rita and flees, completely unaware that his hostage is a deputy sheriff. A massive manhunt ensues, spearheaded by Lt. Severance a tough, obessive cop. Santee leads the detective and his men on a dramatic high speed chase, from the desert wilderness to the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Santee's out to clear his name and when it comes to getting even, he's taking revenge into overdrive.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:15

          Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the FBI and forced to inform on her own "brothers," she'll have to walk the fine line between love, loyalty, honor and betrayal, and try to keep it together for her daughter's future.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genredrama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:51

          The story of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration02:01

          An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Bulgaria
          Duration01:59

          Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.




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