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The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past--but his son has to search the world to find it
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, political thriller, exciting, neo noir, surprise ending, suspense ...
Plot:
espionage, nazi, conspiracy, undercover, holocaust, violence, brutality, hitman, haunted by the past, against the odds, family relations, political intrigue, dishonesty, world war two, covert operation, rescue, female agent, female spy, femme fatale, assassin, betrayal, undercover agent, gunfight, secret agent, spy thriller ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1985, year 1945, future
Place:
berlin germany, new york, england, london, manhattan new york city, switzerland, west berlin west germany ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, realistic and serious films with plots about gun, murder, death, pistol, chase, violence and assassin mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like The Holcroft Covenant: The Fourth Protocol (1987), Target (1985), The Gunman (2015), Blue Ice (1992), Spooks: The Greater Good (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A Texan with a secret past (Gene Hackman) searches Europe with his son (Matt Dillon) after the KGB kidnaps his wife (Gayle Hunnicutt).
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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29%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
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terrorism, terrorist, undercover, female agent, british intelligence, escape, one man army, corruption, disobeying orders, police, secret agent, uncover truth ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, britain, united kingdom, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Colombia, Indonesia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.
Style:
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Time:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, Jordan, Morocco, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, India, Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Bulgaria, Romania
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, lone wolves, special agent, uncover truth, government agency, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, conspiracy, car bomb, one against many, espionage ...
Time:
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Place:
boston, pittsburgh
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Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
usa, san francisco, california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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