Movies like Lies & Illusions

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Lies & Illusions (2009)
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Lies & Illusions (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a menacing smuggler coolly insists that best-selling author Wes Wilson take a chauffeured backseat ride with him, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence and espionage, and he learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: thief, murder, diamonds, on the run, chase, rivalry, danger, kidnapping, undercover, dishonesty, dealing with death, tough heroes, espionage, writers, ballroom dancing, diamond, evil man, guilty pleasure, foot chase, speech, severed finger, walking in the rain, newspaper article, tuxedo, book signing ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, cuba

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about danger, rivalry, deadly, chases and races, violent content, heroes and murder mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Lies & Illusions: Die Fighting (2014), Sacrifice (2011), Absolute Deception (2013), Assassins' Code (2011), Body Armour (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Die Fighting (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a team of Shaolin-trained kung fu actors is about to get their break in Hollywood, a mysterious and sadistic Director forces them to run a gauntlet through Los Angeles. The Director films their every move as they prove their prowess by ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: martial arts, rivalry, battles, hollywood, shaolin monk, chase, danger, entrapment, monster, heroes, couple relations, master warrior ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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Sacrifice (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister in his care.
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, law enforcement, police detective, danger, hopes, confined, tough heroes, cop, religion, child in peril, profanity, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba
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Absolute Deception (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, manhunt, undercover, investigation, special agent, danger, chases and races, law enforcement, dishonesty, couple relations, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, australia, hong kong, cuba
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, working undercover, hitman, rivalry, undercover, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, woman with a gun, spy, haunted by the past, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Body Armour (2007)
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Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: assassin, hitman, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, murder, gunfight, violent content, vengeance, heroes, profanity, shootout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Way of War (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba, washington d.c., middle east
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Tell (2014)
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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25%
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Cold Steel (1987)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, psychopath, ex cop, investigation, rivalry, femme fatale, police detective, serial killer, xmas, revenge, police, police officer ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Assassins Run (2013)
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Duration: 88 min.
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Story: One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: Johnny Wayne (Clint Browning) is an ex-racer who is serving time in prison after crippling a young boy during an illegal street race. Wayne, having been traumatized by the events, vows to never race again, and is soon released as a reformed citizen. ...
Style: exciting, captivating, mockbuster, tense, suspense ...
Plot: street racing, chases and races, contests and competitions, obsession, going straight, racing, rivalry, danger, auto racing, murder, carsploitation, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, independent film ...
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Style: exciting, captivating, humorous, tense, serious ...
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Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
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Urgency (2011)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
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Duration: 90 min.
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21%
The Power of Few (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Dead Drop (2013)
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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