Movies like The Day of the Jackal

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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
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The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style: political thriller, exciting, suspenseful, political, atmospheric, talky, intense, rough, serious, suspense ...
Plot: conspiracy, terrorism, espionage, hitman, assassin, politics, terrorist plot, investigation, police investigation, serial killer, terrorist, assassination, police, murder, race against time, assassination plot, contract killer, french president, president, literary, secret service, false identity, law enforcement, danger, torture ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, year 1973, 60s, 70s, 1960s
Place: paris france, france, algeria, europe, london, vienna, big ben london ...
Keyword: reboot, danish, gangsters, operation, french

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Most similar movies to The Day of the Jackal

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and suspense films with plots about espionage, murder, danger, politics, dishonesty, spy and conspiracy mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Day of the Jackal: Le Samurai (1967), The Fourth Protocol (1987), In the Line of Fire (1993), The Parallax View (1974), The Pelican Brief (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Le Samurai (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: loner, hitman, gangster, assassination, police investigation, loneliness, assassin, betrayal, chase, anti hero, organized crime, character study ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, cold war, politics, spy, conspiracy, kgb, chase, betrayal, nuclear bomb, race against time, secret agent, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, political, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: secret service, obsession, election, assassin, assassination attempt, conspiracy, assassination of president, assassination plot, president, gunfight, hitman, terrorism ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1992
Place: washington d.c., california, los angeles, usa, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Parallax View (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political ...
Plot: politics, corruption, conspiracy, investigation, reporter, journalism, murder, assassin, media, senator, political conspiracy, paranoia ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style: tense, political thriller, political, suspense, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: political conspiracy, state affairs, investigation, politics, conspiracy, reporter, lawyer, courtroom, corruption, conspiracy theory, political corruption, murder ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: new orleans, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 124K
The Jackal (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI boss and a former IRA terrorist.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination attempt, chase, revenge, cold war, terrorism, lone wolves, assassination, gangster, conspiracy, murder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: chicago, washington d.c., russia, montreal, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Ipcress File (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies introducing the sly, dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer. The story, centers on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot: espionage, cold war, conspiracy, spy, double agent, brainwashing, politics, undercover, investigation, british, political intrigue, secret agent ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: london, albania, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 154K
Vantage Point (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
Style: surprise ending, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: terrorism, secret service, assassination attempt, conspiracy, president, assassination, bomb, chase, betrayal, assassin, terrorist, espionage ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The American (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, tense, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hitman, one last job, nudity, sniper, spy, betrayal, anti hero, loner, assassination, assassin, small town, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 45K
Nick of Time (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: assassination, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, accountant, kidnapping, race against time, twists and turns, assassination plot, murder, politics, terrorism, investigation ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Carlos the Jackal (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 334 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Style: suspenseful, political, atmospheric, captivating, epic ...
Plot: terrorism, revolutionary, murderer, terrorist, gunfight, biopic, politics, revolution, mossad, character study, danger, mission ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2010, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: south america, lebanon, palestine, israel, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Seven Days in May (1964)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style: political thriller, tense, political, black and white, suspense ...
Plot: cold war, conspiracy, politics, white house, u.s. air force, terrorism, president, secret service, u.s. president, coup d'etat, betrayal, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, future
Place: austin texas, russia, soviet union, america, el paso texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)
Genre: Crime, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, psychological, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, murder, secret agent, manhunt, frame up, danger, uncover truth, espionage, state affairs, spy, chase, gunfight ...
Time: year 1978, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century, pre world war one
Place: big ben london, london, europe, england, scotland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Statement (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, intense, political, serious ...
Plot: war criminal, world war two, investigation, politics, murder, justice, nazi, espionage, on the run, fighting the system, law enforcement, state affairs ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003, 90s
Place: france, vichy, europe, paris france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
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Munich (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 164 min.
Story: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style: political, intense, suspense, brutal, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, mossad, judaism, politics, murder, spy, terrorist, islamic terrorism, cia ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Night Manager (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 346 min.
TV show
Story: Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer ...
Style: serious, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: espionage, spy, arms dealer, undercover, corruption, working undercover, secret service, arms dealing, british secret service, violent, betrayal, murder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, switzerland, morocco, spain, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 26K
The Passenger (1975)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 126 min.
Story: David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes ...
Style: road movie, stylized, cerebral, philosophical, existential ...
Plot: desert, reporter, journalism, journalist, existentialism, on the road, hotel, loneliness, espionage, identity, road trip, politics ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, europe, italy, barcelona, north africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The International (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, ...
Style: clever, exciting, suspenseful, sexy, enigmatic ...
Plot: conspiracy, interpol, murder, investigation, assassin, conspiracy theory, chase, hitman, lawyer, revenge, gunfight, police investigation ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, milan italy, berlin germany, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Marathon Man (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, dentist, revenge, nazi, paranoia, espionage, kidnapping, violence, chase, brother brother relationship, murder, torture ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, persia, uruguay, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jack Higgins' straightforward thriller about a guilt-ridden IRA bomber forced into "one last job"
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: terrorism, redemption, on the run, gangster, haunted by the past, going straight, clergy, crime boss, anti hero, one last job, ex soldier, espionage ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: ireland, england, northern ireland, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 11K
The Package (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, military, cold war, spy, soldier, prisoner, sergeant, airport, assassin, politics, government agency, state affairs ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: germany, washington d.c., chicago, europe, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Style: clever, bleak, tense, political, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, surveillance, immigrant, war on terror, islam, secret service, investigation, betrayal, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, hamburg germany, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Style: suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, spy, conspiracy, sniper, politics, assassination, shootout, drug cartel, violence, espionage, covert operation, mercenary ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, washington d.c., usa, langley virginia, iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Traitor (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, terrorism, islam, religion, conspiracy, faith, bomb, twists and turns, cia, propaganda, traitor, spy ...
Time: year 2008, year 1978, 21st century
Place: chicago, sudan, los angeles, nice france, toronto ontario canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Sweeney! (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The film followed the adventures of DI Regan and DS Carter as they became embroiled in a deadly political scandal. One of the leading members of the government, Charles Baker (Ian Bannen) is about to secure a huge deal with OPEC stabilising the ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot: police, president, politics, police investigation, investigation, political conspiracy, police detective, law enforcement, dishonesty, state affairs, espionage, uncover truth ...
Time: 70s
Place: london, england, europe, scotland yard, tower bridge london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
 194K
Ronin (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, car chase, mafia, cia, mercenary, car, undercover, caper, chase, shootout, ira, secret agent ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, nice france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.1
 753
Sudden Terror (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: assassination, coming of age, chase, danger, on the run, murder, killer, pursuit, hitman, martial law, witnessing a crime, police investigation ...
Time: 60s
Place: malta, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 8.2
 31K
Z (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises ...
Style: political, political thriller, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, politics, military, police, government, right wing, corruption, investigation, murder investigation, political corruption, justice, protest ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: greece, france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Devil's Own (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, political ...
Plot: terrorism, murder, politics, terrorist, friendship, police investigation, betrayal, tragic event, violence, revenge, assassin, chase ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, year 1972
Place: ireland, northern ireland, new york, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 111K
The Interpreter (2005)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, South Africa
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, mind bending, political, tense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: assassination, un, spy, investigation, murder, espionage, fbi, twists and turns, secret service, vengeance, chase, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, new york, brooklyn new york city, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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