Movies like Safe House 1998
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Safe House (1998)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret information which implicates a Presidential front-runner, Mace struggles for his life while battling the debilitating effects of the disease.
Style:
political, psychological, exciting, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
Plot:
spy, alzheimer's disease, political conspiracy, conspiracy theory, home invasion, dementia, world war, conspiracy, undercover, espionage, parents and children, life is a bitch, frame up, chases and races, fighting the system, assassination attempt, danger, race against time, political corruption, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs, uncover truth, secret agent, special agent ...
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about undercover, dishonesty, state affairs, danger, chases and races, deadly and secret agent mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Safe House: Conspiracy Theory (1997), The Enemy Within (1994), Able Danger (2008), The Domino Killings (1977), The Executioner (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
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tense, suspense, political thriller, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
conspiracy, cia, political conspiracy, paranoia, conspiracy theory, murder, mind control, surveillance, chase, spy, obsession, amnesia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style:
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Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, fighting the system, government agency, danger, politics, race against time, dishonesty, undercover, rebellion, society, life is a bitch ...
Place:
new york, usa
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51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. Now, serving a long stretch in ...
Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Country: UK, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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35%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in US history
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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30%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Duration: 91 min.
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