Movies and TV shows like La Femme Nikita
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La Femme Nikita (1997)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was first telecast in North America on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for five television seasons—until March 2001. The series was also aired in Canada on the over-the-air CTV Television Network. La Femme Nikita was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries, and it continues to have a strong cult following.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, spy action, thrilling, fast, telenovela
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
secret agent, secret life, double agent, government agency, disguise, love, female assassin, femme fatale, female killer, kickass women, terrorist, forbidden love, true love, deception, cover up, working undercover, undercover, chases and races, danger, workplace, surveillance, undercover agent, professional killer, superheroine, secret organization ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and realistic films and TV series with plots about undercover, chases and races, danger, spy, gun, deadly and espionage mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like La Femme Nikita: Nikita (2010), 24 (2001), Point of No Return (1993), Nikita (1990), Alias (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom ...
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boys' night, girls' night, teens
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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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, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassin, female assassin, female killer, hitman, professional killer, woman with a gun, espionage, female agent, working undercover, spy, femme fatale, secret government organization ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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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, tense, captivating, heroic, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, working undercover, spy, cia, double agent, female agent, female spy, strong female lead, young woman, betrayal, secret identity, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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50%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, government agency, espionage, secret identity, undercover, spy, special agent, state affairs, betrayal, fbi, dishonesty, chases and races ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
114K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada
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 ...
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exciting, serious, suspenseful, teen, action thriller ...
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, semi serious, suspenseful, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 42 min.
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Audience:
family friendly
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Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
england
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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797
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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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, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 46 min.
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Jack Bauer comes out of hiding in London to head off a massive terrorist attack while being hunted down by American forces dispatched by President James Heller.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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90s
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 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 ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, kidnapping, hitman, chess, covert operation, spy, hostage, desert, rivalry, danger, undercover, heroes ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to kill the president Njala of an African country. However, a counter-order is given before he can execute his mission and he is abandoned in the hands of foreign authorities. He escapes and seeks revenge by ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, female nudity, assassination, secret agent, lone hero, assassination attempt, prison, hitman, car chase, tough heroes, secret service, chase ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
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serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, action packed, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
femme fatale, one woman army, woman with a gun, assassin, tough girl, female martial artist, secret agent, assassination, vengeance, martial arts, tough heroes, gunfight ...
Time:
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Place:
vancouver
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, blind man, blindness, double life, cia, female spy, female protagonist, secret agent, blind character, state affairs, undercover, workplace ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, langley virginia, virginia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
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Athena: Goddess of War is a South Korean espionage television drama series broadcast by SBS in 2010 and a spin-off of 2009's Iris. Budgeted at ₩20 billion like its predecessor, the two series are among the most expensive Korean dramas ever ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, secret agent, undercover, heroes, agent, political conspiracy, chases and races, espionage, state affairs, assassination, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, korea
Similarity:
22%
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