Movies like Most Wanted 1997

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Most Wanted (1997)
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Most Wanted (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col Grant Casey. Their mission is to neutralize criminals who had avoided conventional law enforcement methods. On his first Mission, James is made the fall guy for the assassination of the first lady and everyone is loo
Style: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, surprise ending, fast, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political conspiracy, frame up, investigation, manhunt, on the run, assassination, death row, conspiracy, sniper, false accusation, bomb, parachuting, reluctant partners, chase, betrayal, murder, tough guy, african american, showdown, one man army, framed for murder, first lady, scapegoat, african american protagonist, shootout ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 1990s
Place: iraq

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films with plots about shootout, pistol, gunfight, chases and races, tough guy, murder and blood splatter mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Most Wanted: Enemy of the State (1998), Erased (2012), Shadow Conspiracy (1997), Shooter (2007), Silent Trigger (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Enemy of the State (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Hotshot Washington lawyer, Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security agent sets out to recover the tape – and destroy Dean.
Style: clever, tense, suspense, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, kids
Plot: conspiracy, surveillance, espionage, cia, political conspiracy, uncover truth, on the run, investigation, politics, twists and turns, manhunt, intelligence ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: baltimore, washington d.c., maryland, afghanistan, iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 33K
Erased (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Belgium, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, rough, action thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cia, father daughter relationship, spy, espionage, family relations, secret agent, hitman, secret service, conspiracy, on the run, family in danger, chase ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: belgium, usa, antwerp, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately ...
Style: suspense, exciting, political thriller, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political conspiracy, on the run, conspiracy, betrayal, assassination, corruption, politics, political corruption, intrigue, witnessing a crime, life turned upside down, political intrigue ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 353K
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 ⇓
50%
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Silent Trigger (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.
Style: suspense, bloody, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, sniper, assassin, soldier, killer, terrorism, mercenary, heroes, showdown, kickboxing, violence, one man army ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 6K
End Game (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alex Thomas was the man in charge of protecting the president but, when the time came to fulfill his duties, everything just went wrong. His conscience haunted by a bullet and his devotion to his country stronger than ever, Alex teams with seasoned ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, investigation, bodyguard, assassination, secret service, police, journalist, political conspiracy, car chase, spy, haunted by the past, political intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 4K
Live Wire (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, reluctant partners, assassination, senator, investigation, undercover, danger, special agent, police detective, government agency, politics, terrorist ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Desert Saints (2002)
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Kiefer Sutherland is a hard-edged hit man. Known as the world's best professional killer, Sutherland is living a life of detached solitude when he is given an assignment that pairs him up with a sultry hitchhiker (Melora Walters). Before long, ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, manhunt, investigation, fbi, betrayal, undercover, murder, kidnapping, woman kills a man, rivalry, crime gone awry, danger ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora, arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.8
 748
Sanctuary (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Luke Kovak is part of a covert group within the CIA that works on illegal black ops involving blackmail and assassinations. When his boss orders the murder of one of the team, Luke realizes how expendable they all are and gets out (taking proof of ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, conspiracy, martial arts, assassination, undercover, redemption, church, assassination attempt, rogue agent, female assassin, female agent, manhunt ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: pentagon, chicago, italy, canada, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 316K
The Fugitive (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, detective, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, on the run, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, investigation, fugitives, death row, doctor, manhunt, corruption, fugitive ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 2K
The Defender (2004)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, state affairs, daring rescue, danger, save the day, chases and races, law enforcement, conspiracy, undercover agent, shootout, spy ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe, new york, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Control Factor (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mind control, brainwashing, political conspiracy, uncover truth, rivalry, undercover, government agency, investigation, dishonesty, supernatural ability, murder, conspiracy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 113K
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: manhunt, cia, on the run, conspiracy, frame up, agent, fugitive, tough cop, corruption, car chase, murder, u.s. marshal ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, chicago, kentucky, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 22K
F/X (1986)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: corruption, murder, gangster, chase, manhunt, assassination, disguise, car chase, faked death, witness protection, mission of murder, frame up ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 25K
Sniper (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Tough guy Thomas Beckett is an US soldier working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he's accompanied by ...
Style: psychological, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, political thriller ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: sniper, soldier, assassin, manhunt, tough heroes, military, special forces, hitman, killer, army, spy, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1993, 20th century, 90s
Place: panama, latin america, central america, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
 483
Running Red (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Plot: martial arts, spy, behind enemy lines, terrorism, one against many, gunfight, home invasion, heroes, soldier, assassination, starting over, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.3
 1K
Captured (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Matt Hendricks (Dolph Lundgren) is the US Navy's top Marine Special Operations Commander and is facing his toughest challenge yet - Escorting the deadliest viral weapon on the planet back to a safe Storage Faciliy.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, terrorism, state affairs, save the day, special agent, female warrior, frame up, danger, government agency, die hard, evil man, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, russia, pentagon, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 31K
The Art of War (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When ruthless terrorists threaten to bring down the United Nations, they frame the one man they believe can stop them: an international security expert named Shaw. Now he must run from his own allies and become a solitary force for good, as he tries ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, espionage, martial arts, murder, political conspiracy, secret agent, mafia, gunfight, car chase, heroes, translator, frame up ...
Time: y2k, year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Movie Info When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, cia, martial arts, spy, woman with a gun, bossy woman, female assassin, special agent, secret agent, psychopath, working undercover, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Behind Enemy Lines (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, prison, world war, heroes, one man army, profanity, captivity, jungle, heroic mission, escapades, danger, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
Plot: state affairs, danger, terrorism, assassination, political conspiracy, political corruption, dishonesty, government agency, military, race against time, political intrigue, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba, washington d.c., middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Storm Catcher (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered ...
Style: realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, conspiracy, heroes, terrorist, state affairs, dishonesty, political conspiracy, false accusation, confined, rivalry, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, martial arts, assassination, heroes, on the run, murder, conspiracy, politics, manhunt, protagonist as suspect, rivalry, undercover ...
Place: british columbia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
Style: tense, suspense, political thriller, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: conspiracy, cia, political conspiracy, paranoia, conspiracy theory, murder, mind control, surveillance, chase, spy, obsession, amnesia ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 10K
The Contractor (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Former CIA Operative, James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, manhunt, frame up, assassination, betrayal, heroes, murder, on the run, friendship, danger, law enforcer killer, spy ...
Place: england, iraq, london, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Foreigner (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This story is about a freelance agent (Seagal) who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, secret agent, martial arts, spy, good versus evil, heroes, on the run, race against time, danger, undercover, espionage, government agency ...
Place: france, europe, poland, germany, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Land of the Free (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A politician's campaign manager (Speakman) discovers that the candidate (Shatner) is a front for a military organization plotting a political overthrow of the government. In trying to expose the candidate's right-wing activities, he puts ...
Style: political, independent film, realistic, serious, political thriller
Plot: political conspiracy, conspiracy, die hard, car chase, terrorism, chase, terrorist group, election campaign, terrorist plot, corrupt politician, political corruption, workplace situations ...
Time: 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 52K
The Sentinel (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a relentless FBI agent.
Style: political thriller, suspenseful, intense, rough, action packed ...
Plot: secret service, frame up, conspiracy, investigation, spy, president, assassination, espionage, on the run, double agent, blackmail, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 120K
Patriot Games (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Style: exciting, political, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, spy, hitman, revenge, espionage, cia, terrorist, assassination, conspiracy, ira, violence, secret agent ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., ireland, usa, north africa, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Angel Has Fallen (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, intense, humorous ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: secret service, agent, terrorist, fbi, secret service agent, president, lone hero, justice, white house, gunfight, false accusation, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., west virginia, virginia, north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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