Movies and TV shows like Missing 2012

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Missing (2012)
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Missing (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him down. A surprising turn of events reveals just how far one mother will go to protect her family. Exotic locations and thrilling twists will keep you riveted in "Missing."
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot: missing child, kidnapping, conspiracy, investigation, parents and children, spy, twists and turns, heroes, missing person, family relations, disappearance, danger, retired, husband wife relationship, espionage, intelligence, punishment, secret service, chases and races, strong female presence, life turned upside down, ex law enforcer, violent content, martial arts, cia agent ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films and TV series with plots about danger, spy, conspiracy, espionage, investigation, chases and races and dishonesty mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Missing: Crisis (2014), Alias (2001), Threshold (2005), Tyrant (2014), Chosen (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crisis (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When Washington's most powerful players are pulled into an international conspiracy, an unlikely puppeteer will bring everyone from CEOs to The President of the United States to their knees by threatening the things they hold most dear.
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Plot: secret service, hostage, conspiracy, investigation, kidnapping, fbi, special agent, betrayal, confined, parents and children, twists and turns, older man teenage girl relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 54K
Alias (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, action adventure, detective ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: female protagonist, cia, spy, double agent, female spy, female agent, double life, female warrior, espionage, young woman, working undercover, betrayal ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 6K
Threshold (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Threshold was a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, cliffhanger ...
Plot: government conspiracy, invasion, infected, alien invasion, dream, hallucination, contact, alien encounter, genetically altered, human existence, government facility, encounter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 24K
Tyrant (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Bassam "Barry" Al Fayeed, the younger son of the dictator of a war-torn nation, ends a self-imposed 20-year exile to return to his ...
Style: captivating, tense, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: dictatorship, homecoming, totalitarianism, ruler, state affairs, political unrest, family relations, parents and children, gay son, secret, society, exile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 4K
Chosen (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ian Mitchell is a lawyer and father who one day receives a box containing a gun and a picture of a stranger, along with instructions to kill the pictured person. He is subsequently attacked by another stranger, and discovers that he has been chosen ...
Style: serious, realistic, teen, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, mind game, moral dilemma, life turned upside down, disorder, danger, family in danger, who to trust, rivalry, chases and races, torture, lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.7
 14K
The Bureau (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their ...
Style: tense, realistic, political thriller, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, espionage, undercover agent, terrorism, investigation, danger, national security, secret service, twists and turns, characters in danger, obsession, cia ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria, paris france, israel, iran, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Odyssey (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: military, twists and turns, uncover truth, violent content, corporate crime, dishonesty, left to die, spy, family relations, state affairs, society, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a ...
Style: serious, suspense, captivating, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, investigation, terrorism, spy, agent, terrorist, conspiracy, twists and turns, cia agent, danger, shooting ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, langley virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 7.4
 13K
Legends (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, espionage, spy, special agent, state affairs, betrayal, fbi, chases and races, dishonesty, on the run, government agency, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.7
 13K
In the Blood (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: one woman army, martial arts, female martial artist, tough girl, missing person, woman kills a man, danger, spouse in danger, kidnapping, vigilante, attempted rape, female warrior ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, caribbean, dominican republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 18K
Condor (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization to a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, erotic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, government conspiracy, murder, investigation, spy, twists and turns, analyst, computer hacker, danger, dialogue, fight scenes, espionage ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.3
 3K
The Agency (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant Productions in association ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, cerebral, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, terrorism, cia, undercover, working undercover, state affairs, government agency, national security, conspiracy, intelligence, secret agent, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.1
 7K
Deep State (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may mean he has no life to go back to.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: british secret service, cia, intelligence agency, spy, tough guy, conspiracy, father son relationship, estranged son, espionage, special agent, revenge, danger ...
Place: london, middle east, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.5
 2K
Hostages (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The night before a high profile operation on the PM, the surgeon due to perform the procedure is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly take control of her and her family and order her to kill the PM.
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: family relations, political conspiracy, treason, twists and turns, moral dilemma, danger, parents and children, dishonesty, confined, kidnapping, abduction, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 8.1
 3K
24 (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This thriller series focuses on an anti-terrorist unit agent named Jai Singh Rathod who has twenty-four hours to save the country from a major terrorist attack.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, daring rescue, save the day, investigation, state affairs, rivalry, danger, chases and races, dishonesty, spy, propaganda, die hard ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
XIII: The Series (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After a plot to kill the president of the USA an agent with lost memories tries to recover his life and memories. Others use him to cover up some dirty business involving high ranking officials from the CIA and the White House.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorist, memory loss, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, who to trust, life is a bitch, dishonesty, secret service, state affairs, chases and races, spy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.5
 226
Hidden Camera (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter is killed in a mass murder in a Barcelona hotel room, maverick reporter Dan Kovaks, the dead journalist's brother, launches an investigation all his own. But now he and his hard-driving producer, Alejandra ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: uncover truth, on the run, investigation, danger, dishonesty, chases and races, journalism, media, scoop, spy, international crisis, interpol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 4K
Agent X (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, spy, heroic mission, politics, state affairs, undercover, vice president, heroes, conspiracy, strong female presence, daughter
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Book of Jer3miah (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A college freshman, Jeremiah Whitney, accepts the undertaking to protect a mysterious Mesoamerican box. When Jeremiah's parents are mysteriously murdered, Jeremiah learns that he is the target of a frightening conspiracy. Every facet of his ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: conspiracy, chase, riddles and clues, life turned upside down, young heroes, uncover truth, religions or cults, heroic mission, destiny, heroes, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
 2K
Vanished (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Vanished is an American serial drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox. The series premiered on August 21, 2006 on Fox and its last episode aired on November 10, 2006. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the series begins with the sudden ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, mission, haunted by the past, journalist, victim, ransom, suicide, uncover truth, law enforcement, couple relations, loss of son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.0
 33K
Erased (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Belgium, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, rough, action thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cia, father daughter relationship, spy, espionage, family relations, secret agent, hitman, secret service, conspiracy, on the run, family in danger, chase ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: belgium, usa, antwerp, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 20K
Intelligence (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A drama centered on a high-tech intelligence operative who is enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain, and the director of the elite government cyber-security agency who supports him.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hi-tech, intelligence, heroes, government agency, espionage, computers and web, life risking, fellow agent, spy, secret agent, inventions and discoveries, computer system ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
My Own Worst Enemy (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: My Own Worst Enemy is an American television drama that aired on NBC in 2008. It premiered on October 13 and ended on December 15 after 9 episodes. The series was produced by Universal Media Studios. Jason Smilovic was the executive producer; David ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, split personality, spy, disorder, working undercover, workplace, danger, undercover, suburbs, husband wife relationship, therapist, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Gordin Cell (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, clever ...
Plot: betrayal, double agent, moral dilemma, espionage, workplace situations, parents and children, family relations, who to trust, secret agent, special agent, dishonesty, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 821
The Grid (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 266 min.
TV show
Story: A team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell who's operating on a global level.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, fbi, murder, save the day, investigation, rivalry, rebellion, danger, undercover, race against time, political conspiracy, political unrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, chicago, syria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 2K
Undercovers (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Five years after leaving the CIA to open a catering company, Steven and Samantha Bloom are recruited back into the agency by Carlton Shaw. They take on special missions the average agent cannot handle. Having made a pact to never discuss their pasts ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, partner, secret agent, escapades, undercover, danger, working undercover, cia, disorder, couples, couple relations, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 8.1
 5K
Traveler (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Traveler is a short-lived American television series that ran from May 10, 2007 until July 18, 2007 on ABC in the United States. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Television. Traveler was officially canceled after eight first-run episodes on ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, realistic, detective ...
Plot: conspiracy, student, fbi, friendship, disappearance, on the run, danger, dishonesty, suspicion, chases and races, protagonist as suspect, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.2
 30K
Alphas (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Five ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas. Operating within the U.S. Department of Defense, the team investigates cases that point to others with Alpha abilities.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural ability, mind control, investigation, experiment, supernatural, superhuman powers, psychic, danger, superhero, enemy, anger, fellow agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, undercover, rescue, state affairs, chases and races, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.8
 147
The Cult (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: New Zealand
TV show
Story: The Cult is a New Zealand serial drama television series in which a group of people try to rescue their loved ones from a mysterious cult called Two Gardens. The Cult held the 8:30-9:30 spot on TV2 in New Zealand. The series debuted in New Zealand ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: rescue, secret movement, danger, confined, family relations, isolation, conspiracy, investigation, uncover truth, couples, rivalry, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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