IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Payback (1999)
Payback runs on kinetic urgency, rain-soaked noir, and urban alienation. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
An Eye for an Eye
1981
The Specialist
1994
Shaft
2000
The Anderson Tapes
1971
The Outfit
1973
Easy Money III: Life Deluxe
2013
Exterminator 2
1984
Violent City
1970
15 Minutes
2001
Never Die Alone
2004
The Stone Killer
1973
Kiss of Death
1995
Avenging Angel
1985
Villain
1971
No Mercy
1986
Message from the King
2017
Alphabet City
1984
City of Industry
1997
Dark Angel
1990
Sharky's Machine
1981
Kiss of the Dragon
2001
Q & A
1990
Shopping
1994
The Punisher
1989