20 best movies like The Deceivers (1988)

List of the best movies like The Deceivers (1988): The Jungle Book, The Shadow in the North, Raavanan, Drishyam, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, Day of Wrath, Raman Raghav 2.0, Shoot to Kill, Black Sea.

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Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:45

A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryIndia
Duration02:10

After inspector Dev stirs the reign of Veeraiya, a tribal outlaw, the latter responds by kidnapping his wife, Ragini. While she tries to escape from him, Dev fights many resistances to find her.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration01:00

A simple, street-smart man tries to protect his family from a tough cop looking for his missing son.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada
Duration02:44

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, France

A dynamic killer thriller with its finger firmly on the pulse of stark social commentary and shattering suspense. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr Big, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary

At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can local 16th-century sheriff Ruy de Mendoza (Christopher Lambert) discern who's responsible when no one wants to cooperate? After all, before Mendoza can even identify the bodies, the crime scenes are mysteriously cleared -- and the villagers pretend the murders never happened.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration03:22

Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s Raman Raghav. His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young Cop keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face to face.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:50

When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox. It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah becomes the killer's latest hostage!

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, Russia, USA
Duration01:50

    A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, western
    CountryIndia

    A Police Officer, whose family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh, decides to fight fire with fire and recruits two convicts, Jai & Veeru, to bring Gabbar Singh to jail alive, but will they succeed in their mission and get their reward? Come and watch the action-packed super-hit Sholay to find out!!

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, western
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand
    Duration01:55

    The story of a woman who must find her kidnapped son, navigating a world she doesn't know, on the edge of danger with every heartbeat.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryIndia

    A CBI officer goes in search of a ruthless serial killer. Things get worse when the murderer targets the former and her family

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration01:33

    The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryIndia
    Duration03:08

    Rustom Pavri, an honourable officer of the Indian Navy shoots his friend Vikram to death after discovering that his wife Cynthia had an affair with the rich businessman. The Commander surrenders himself to the Police immediately and admits to have killed Vikram but pleads 'not guilty' in court. Is he convicted or acquitted?

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:31

    A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryIndia, Namibia
    Duration02:30

    The film is an emotional journey of a common man to an unknown place with the hope to come home and lead a better life. The film revolves around a story of human survival adapted from a newspaper article of a real-life crisis event, when three oil workers from India were kidnapped and taken hostage in Sudan.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryIndia

    A pleasant road trip takes a nightmarish turn for gemologist Sunny George when he meets with an accident. As his life hangs in the balance on the edge of a cliff in the middle of nowhere, Sunny must not only contend with the great adversity he is in, but the adversaries lurking in the shadows as well.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain

    In Seville, Juan is starting to enjoy his weekends outside of prison when tragedy strikes: his little girl is killed in what looks like an accident.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryIndia
    Duration01:03

    In war torn Calcutta during the 1940's, Byomkesh Bakshy, fresh out of college, pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:32

    Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountrySpain, Romania, Russia, France
    Duration01:57

    Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:08

    A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake, his mind as he happens to be the air traffic controller, who fails to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman and Jake finds himself swamped with guilt and regret. Can the two make peace with the past?

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Israel, France

    Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Australia, Spain
    Duration02:10

    In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.  But that told only half the story.  “Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.  Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:53

    Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Romania, United Kingdom

    Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
    CountryIndia

    Village lad Sarman is drawn to big, bad Mohenjo Daro - and its mascot Chaani. But Chaani must wed Munja, son of Mohenjo Daro's ruler, Maham. Will Sarman find love - and more - in Mohenjo Daro?

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:51

    A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:32

    Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic Ralph and the other by militaristic Jack -- their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing examination of human nature and a chilling conclusion.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:32

    Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:52

    A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert, whom Charles suspects is having an affair with his wife and would not mind seeing him dead.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountrySouth Africa, United Kingdom
    Duration01:54

    A traumatized shark expert (Halle Berry) must battle her own fears to lead a thrill-seeking businessman on a dive into a dangerous section of water known as "Shark Alley."

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, biography
    CountryIndia

    A past ridden with crime, death and pain is recounted to Freddy, a juvenile criminal, who has been assigned to eliminate his estranged uncle Sulaiman, an aging patriarch, while behind bars.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure
    CountryAustralia, Colombia, United Kingdom
    Duration02:13

    A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for survival.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA

    As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:48

      A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:40

      Arun Khanna is a spy for the Indian government whose aid is enlisted to stop ISI Chief Ishak Khan. Khan is trying to build a nuclear bomb with which he can liberate Kashmir from the Indians. A battle of wits ensues. When Khan detonates a bomb at Khanna's engagement party to a fellow spy, Khanna's resolve is only strengthened. Now not only does he have to fight Khan, but he also has to track down his missing fiancee.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, adventure, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:44

      Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:50

      Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      A young twenty-something diver living in the Florida Keys discovers he has the power to breathe underwater.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryIndia

      An emotional thriller based on a road trip from Mumbai to Pune. Inspired from the real events that happened in Chennai.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryIndia
      Duration03:50

      Shivaay , a fearless Himalayan mountaineer covered in Lord Shiva tattoos, heads to Bulgaria to fulfill his nine-year-old daughter Gaura’s wish of seeing her mother Olga, who abandoned them years ago. But their plan goes for a toss when the little girl gets kidnapped in the foreign land. Rescuing her from the masked child-traffickers becomes his only reason for survival.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      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.




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