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The Internship (2026)
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A CIA-trained assassin recruits other graduates from her secret childhood program, The Internship, to violently destroy the organization. The CIA fights back with deadly force.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, dark
Plot:
cia, assassin, revenge, espionage, rebellion, female protagonist, black ops, assassination, violent, betrayal, conspiracy, manhunt, bloodbath, moral ambiguity, trauma, hand to hand combat, vigilante justice, anti hero, cat and mouse, gun, guns
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Most similar movies to The Internship
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, dark and noir films with plots about revenge, moral ambiguity, betrayal, violent, cat and mouse, conspiracy and survival mostly in Action, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Internship: Hunting Jessica Brok (2025), Long Gone Heroes (2024), Black Wolf (2022), Jade (2025), Short Fuse (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Long before she was a single mother in a sleepy South African town, Jessica Brok was a highly skilled, coldblooded, special ops assassin. She thought she’d left that life behind. She thought her last ill-fated mission was her last. She thought ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, action packed, tense, bloody
Plot:
female protagonist, revenge, rescue mission, assassin, special forces, survival, single mother, showdown, cat and mouse, manhunt, chase, isolation ...
Place:
south africa
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95%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gunner, a special forces soldier who has witnessed the darkest side of country and combat, is forced back into the field of battle to save his niece, who is being held in South America. As the fight intensifies, Gunner and his team discover that her ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, grim
Plot:
rescue mission, military, dark past, special forces, gunfight, mercenary, corruption, mature, revenge, survival, redemption, hand to hand combat ...
Place:
south america, venezuela
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81%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man haunted by people who bullied him in high school, finds out that now, 40 years later, they are all international terrorists. As fate would have it, he is a CIA operative who has just been assigned to take them all down.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, noir ...
Plot:
spy thriller, cia, espionage, terrorism, betrayal, covert operation, revenge, surveillance, conspiracy, school bullying, assassin, vigilante ...
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682
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jade presents the story of a woman who comes between a powerful businessman and a gang leader in their search for a hard drive that could damage the operations of Interpol. Despite grieving for the brother she accidentally killed, the woman is ...
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, action packed ...
Plot:
corruption, female protagonist, organized crime, guilt, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, grief, conspiracy, cat and mouse, gang leader, betrayal, violent ...
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Short, Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
Story:
CIA operative Ryan Drake is hoping to recover a valuable CIA asset and must infiltrate a heavily fortified base in order to do so. Unknown to Drake, his every move is being watched by a shadowy figure. With minimal resistance, Drake silently makes ...
Style:
action thriller, suspenseful, tense, intense, fast paced ...
Plot:
espionage, cia, rescue mission, violence, escape, special ops, assassin, ruse, survival, conspiracy, one man army, undercover ...
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62%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In this ticking clock action-thriller, a courier's last delivery of the day may also be the last day of his life. Strapped with explosives, he must fight for his life while trying to solve a mystery involving both his family and a criminal ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bomb, death threat, problem, terrorist, fight, threat, bomb threat, terrorism, mission, delivery man, hostage, survival ...
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60%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an ex-CIA agent discovers his family have been kidnapped he sets out to rescue them, only to discover they are being held hostage and won't be released unless he carries out a mission to assassinate the President. He must use his advanced ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
assassination of president, conspiracy, spy, espionage, family in danger, hostage, kidnapping, assassination, frame up, special agent, scapegoat, assassination plot ...
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56%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows Pete, a professional hitman, as he faces a group of assassins after the boss of a crime syndicate suspects disloyalty due to his attendance at Workaholics Anonymous meetings.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, dark, fast paced, bleak ...
Plot:
assassin, hitman, betrayal, anti hero, cat and mouse, organized crime, mistrust, urban, violent, revenge, paranoia, survival ...
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54%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dominique, a well-trained assassin, flees from her troubled past in an attempt to begin a new life in South America. However, she soon finds herself in a town plagued with violence and corruption. Facing brutal attacks from the police and mafia, ...
Style:
action thriller, dark, tense, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
assassin, female protagonist, mature, violent, moral dilemma, survival, corruption, police brutality, mafia, lawlessness, redemption, hand to hand combat ...
Place:
colombia, south america
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a member of the IRA takes over an Active Service Unit in London after his wife is accidentally shot dead in Ireland. The unit's mission is to cause chaos and destruction, while his personal aim is to hunt down his wife’s killer ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
revenge, trouble, ira, terrorism, ex soldier, murderer, murder, criminal's revenge, vengeance, violent, political violence, grief ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, london, northern ireland
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A double-dealing member of an elite group of hit men becomes the ultimate target when his organization discovers his deceit.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, dark, noir ...
Plot:
betrayal, assassin, double agent, conspiracy, contract killing, murder, manhunt, revenge, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, survival, paranoia ...
Similarity:
51%
5K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
A journalist pieces together the story of Eagle, a former professional sniper who falls in love with Rachana, and on a mission to redeem himself by working towards eradicating illegal arms from this world.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, intense, crime drama, dark ...
Plot:
sniper, investigative journalism, secrets, investigation, assassin, journalist, assassination, criminal syndicate, character study, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
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50%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Operating alone in the field for more than 20 years, a CIA hitman uses the "Help Wanted" section of the newspapers to get his orders from the Agency. His long-lost daughter, now a UK MI6 analyst, tracks him down to deliver shocking news: ...
Style:
suspense, noir
Plot:
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Place:
london
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
As Israel is rocked by a series of terrorist bombings, a US senator's daughter is killed in one bloody explosion. Now, ex-Mossad agent Etan must lead an elite, covert team of agents and mercenaries to find the man responsible—the elusive ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
military, occupation, mossad, manhunt, terrorism, suicide bomber, wartime life, war zone, soldier, israeli palestinian conflict, palestinian-israeli conflict, wartime ...
Time:
90s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
49%
850
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Tactical Neutralization Team, or T.N.T., is a squad of elite soldiers sent on top-secret, near-suicidal missions around the world. After one of their missions ends in failure, team member Alex decides he's had enough of the special-op life ...
Style:
tense, suspense, cliffhanger, independent film
Plot:
special ops, military, black ops, betrayal, assassination, rogue agent, cat and mouse, violent, manhunt, ex military, survival, paranoia ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two married spies caught in the crosshairs of an international intelligence network will stop at nothing to obtain a critical asset. Joe and Lara are agents living off the grid whose quiet retreat at a winter resort is blown to shreds when members ...
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, dark, grim ...
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A car mechanic's life takes an unexpected turn when his reckless brother makes a bad decision gaining the unwanted attention of a notorious crime boss.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, neo noir
Plot:
organized crime, brotherhood, betrayal, mob boss, moral ambiguity, redemption, mature, revenge, survival, violent, machismo, corruption ...
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Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
tense, crime thriller, dark, suspense, fast paced ...
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Emma le Roux just wants to go home for the holidays. Gentle, beautiful, pacifist Emma. She's made the trip to her father's farm a thousand times. Piece of cake. But not today. Today she will cross paths with members of a violent drug ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, crime drama, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hunting, female protagonist, manhunt, cat and mouse, stalking, isolation, revenge, survival, hostility, gunfight, farm, bloodbath ...
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After uncovering the CIA’s ruthless master plan for world domination by gaining complete mind control over the entire population, top scientist Joseph Markham is ultimately left with a choice: save the lives of billions…or the life of his wife, ...
Style:
dark, suspenseful, tense, political thriller, fast paced ...
Plot:
assassin, kidnapping, conspiracy, mind control, cia, espionage, betrayal, surveillance, rescue mission, moral dilemma, black ops, virus outbreak ...
Time:
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Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Paul Randall finds his mother murdered one day, he himself comes under suspicion.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, grim, detective ...
Plot:
protection, bodyguard, murder, investigation, assassin, family tragedy, paranoia, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, betrayal, male protagonist, urban ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four canisters of deadly VX nerve gas have fallen into the hands of an international arms dealer in Myanmar. A CIA recruit delivers a high-tech detection device to an agent already on the ground.
Style:
action thriller, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
martial arts, undercover agent, covert operation, spy thriller, espionage, cia, agent, undercover police officer, battles, swashbuckler, working undercover, arms dealer ...
Place:
southeast asia
Similarity:
43%
248
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the underground world of contract killers, mistakes cannot be tolerated. Set "Doreé Seay", a top brutal mercenary with an icy exterior, finds out the hard way when one mistake sends her on a treacherous mission to clear her name. ...
Style:
action thriller, intense, tense, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
mercenary, assassin, contract killer, survival, female protagonist, hunting, criminal underworld, extreme violence, falsely accused, violent, cat and mouse, hand to hand combat ...
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Ramakrishna aka Ricky's only one goal in life is to be a RAW recruitee and undertake some Planet-saving mission. Mahadev, RAW head, ropes him in for the most important mission ever known and unknown to even the Prime Minister of India. Ricky ...
Style:
suspense, fast paced, tense, political thriller, masala
Plot:
spy, secret mission, espionage, national security, criminal syndicate, conspiracy, cat and mouse, terrorism, urban, betrayal, hand to hand combat, patriotism ...
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40%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When Police kicks open the doors of the elite underground fight club Knuckledust, they find seven levels of hell, filled with the dead bodies of countless fighters, assassins and goons. Only one man, beaten up to a pulp, is still breathing: Hard ...
Style:
tense, crime thriller, dark, harsh, suspenseful ...
Plot:
fight club, criminal, fighter, interrogation, violent, combat, blood, police officer, investigation, underground, police procedural, corruption ...
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40%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
corruption, underground fighting, corrupt cop, crime boss, street fighter, fighter, corrupt, fight club, combat, problem, ex soldier, hitman ...
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39%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ex-con Kris Chaney seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl's mother. When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and a psychotic killer to exact his revenge, Kris relies on everything ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, brutal, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, psychopath, hitman, rescue mission, organized crime, gangster, redemption, mature, violent, criminal underworld, male protagonist ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Cash is trying to live a quiet, honest life in a small Appalachian town. When a vicious crime boss forces him back into her services, he soon learns he's capable of anything -- even killing -- to protect his family and his home.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
town, family relations, revenge, small town, farmer, gang, farm, farmhouse, fight, bandit, criminal gang, family farm ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An assassin hunts and tortures his old predecessor in the basement of his European home, only to reveal the lies and corruption of their international hitman agency by taking a journey through the manipulations of the old man's past.
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, crime drama, intense ...
Plot:
hitman, assassin, revenge, conspiracy, betrayal, love, murder, corruption, interrogation, spy thriller, torture, violent ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Garan is a part of a group of international hitmen who are contracted to take out the most dangerous killer in the world, only to find out that they're the ones being hunted.
Style:
tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
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