Movies like The Jackal

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The Jackal (1997)
 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, intense, cult classic, action thriller, psychological, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination attempt, chase, revenge, cold war, terrorism, lone wolves, assassination, gangster, conspiracy, murder, hidden identity, man with no name, kgb, killer, twists and turns, danger, politics, sniper, contract killer, spy, vengeance, espionage, fbi ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 1990s
Place: russia, washington d.c., chicago, ireland, montreal, moscow russia, london ...
Keyword: gangsters, reboot, russian, irish

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Most similar movies to The Jackal

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and exciting films with plots about murder, violence, pistol, deadly, shootout, shot in the chest and death mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like The Jackal: Shooter (2007), Shoot to Kill (1988), Ronin (1998), Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), 16 Blocks (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.1
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Shooter (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why.
Style: intense, exciting, suspense, action packed, political ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: sniper, conspiracy, fbi, one man army, on the run, corruption, assassination, revenge, cover up, manhunt, military, false accusation ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: montana, philadelphia, virginia, tennessee, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.8
 15K
Shoot to Kill (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the ...
Style: exciting, intense, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, wilderness, mountain, chase, fbi, manhunt, on the run, horse, survival, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, vancouver, seattle, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
71%
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Style: suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: siege, police corruption, police station, survival, gunfight, criminal's revenge, shootout, police, danger, snow, attempted murder, master criminal ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 134K
16 Blocks (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, harsh, intense ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gunfight, reluctant partners, conspiracy, corrupt cop, buddy, police, organized crime, justice, secret service, cop, police investigation ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, iran, usa, seattle, manhattan new york city
⇓ 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%
 6.3
 88K
Assassins (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination, sniper, professional, spy, gangster, rescue, danger, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, foe turned friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, seattle, detroit, puerto rico, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 ...
Plot: conspiracy, terrorism, espionage, hitman, assassin, politics, terrorist plot, investigation, police investigation, serial killer, terrorist, assassination ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, year 1973, 60s
Place: paris france, france, algeria, europe, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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 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 ⇓
100%
 6.4
 107K
Colombiana (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, vengeance, revenge, female killer, vigilante, one against many, assassin, tough girl, haunted by the past, female protagonist, strong female lead ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 1992, 90s, 21st century
Place: colombia, chicago, latin america, south america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 171K
The Mechanic (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But ...
Style: clever, stylized, brutal, tense, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, assassin, chase, mentor, lone hero, loner, martial arts, tough guy, vengeance, revenge, deception, arms dealer ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, colombia, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.1
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Double Tap (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
Style: independent film, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassin, hitman, professional, killer, terrorism, outlaw, mad love, investigation, undercover cop, profanity, strong violent content, sexual content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
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John Wick (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Style: stylized, exciting, neo noir, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: hitman, vengeance, revenge, one man army, vigilante, assassin, gunfight, shooting, lone hero, tough guy, killer, dog ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 60s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to ...
Style: suspense, intense, serious, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, hitman, strong female lead, terrorism, chase, female assassin, cia, female protagonist, espionage, christmas, terrorist plot ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, pennsylvania, usa, atlantic city new jersey, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 70K
The Specialist (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, hitman, sex scene, haunted by the past, organized crime, rivalry, danger, assassin, spy, vengeance, revenge, erotica ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 431K
Collateral (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style: neo noir, clever, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: hitman, hostage, taxi driver, taxi, killer, twists and turns, killings, sociopath, assassin, merciless, murderer, nihilism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
50%
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 6.8
 10K
The Assignment (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jack Shaw (DONALD SUTHERLAND) has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, terrorism, chase, hitman, espionage, revenge, terrorist, frame up, danger, race against time, politics, secrets ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 70s, 20th century
Place: israel, virginia, middle east, vienna, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 170K
The Punisher (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, vengeance, vigilante, lone hero, vigilantism, violence, superhero, tough guy, one man army, comic hero, mafia, tough heroes ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2003
Place: florida, puerto rico, virginia, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 7.3
 76K
Nikita (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Style: neo noir, suspense, stylized, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female assassin, hitman, female killer, spy, mentor, assassin, undercover, secret government organization, impossible love, bodyguard, training, woman with a gun ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france, venice, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 103K
Running Scared (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun ...
Style: suspense, brutal, bloody, action packed, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: child abuse, gunfight, gangster, police corruption, mafia, undercover agent, mob boss, violent, racism, gory, police investigation, organized crime ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Léon: The Professional (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style: neo noir, rough, suspenseful, touching, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: hitman, mentor, revenge, friendship, loneliness, organized crime, murder, sniper, redemption, loner, life philosophy, killings ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, france, paris france, iran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 60K
Absolute Power (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder in which the President of The United States is involved occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run yet may hold evidence that could convict the President. A political thriller ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, suspenseful, tense, political ...
Plot: secret service, political corruption, murder mystery, politics, political conspiracy, conspiracy, assassination, president, justice, usa president, witnessing a crime, white house ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Company Business (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, secret mission, conspiracy, cia, hostage, exodus, race against time, assassination attempt, danger, politics ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: germany, europe, france, paris france, east berlin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 77K
Mercury Rising (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: autism, conspiracy, assassin, secret service, murder, child in peril, fbi, boy, assassination, witness protection, twists and turns, spy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, bangkok thailand, south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
 6.2
 33K
Blown Away (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, psychopath, bomb squad, brutality, anarchist, stalking, investigation, race against time, government agency, danger, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, usa, northern ireland, massachusetts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 16K
The Mechanic (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes ...
Style: exciting, tense, fast paced, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, killer, hired killer, murder, car chase, espionage, revenge, explosions, death, betrayal, assassination ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: naples italy, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 750
Black Cat (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Catherine is a violent and disturbed young lady who is shot down by the government in one of her escapades. She wakes up in a training facility and is taught to use weapons, combat, and is put through heavy endurance training. When she is done, she ...
Style: fast, serious, realistic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, spy, female protagonist, heroic bloodshed, kung fu, brutality, assassin, rage, murder, love, conspiracy, on the run ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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