Movies like Shiri

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Shiri (1999)
 6.5
 9K
Shiri (1999)
Original name: 쉬리
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijacks a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries.Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
Style: exciting, realistic, stylized, neo noir, action thriller, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hitman, female assassin, female killer, espionage, assassination, swat team, political conspiracy, agent, korean army, spy, love, violence, assassin, betrayal, murder, arms dealer, chase, disaster, bomb, surgery, law enforcement, fight club, face, confrontation ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: north korea, korea, south korea, seoul, asia
Keyword: korean, change, retrospective, visit

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Most similar movies to Shiri

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films with plots about danger, shootout, murder, pistol, spy, explosion and shot to death mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Shiri: Double Agent (2003), The Defender (2004), Olympus Has Fallen (2013), Patriot Games (1992), Sanctuary (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.2
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Double Agent (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A North Korean diplomat defects to the South during the Cold War, but the South Koreans have their suspicions as to whether he is an actual defector or a double agent.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: spy, soldier, politics, save the day, state affairs, political conspiracy, undercover, terrorism, journalism, investigation, dishonesty, political intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, north korea, korea, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 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 ⇓
74%
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national ...
Style: exciting, rough, political thriller, serious, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, president, hostage, white house, terrorist attack, one man army, daring rescue, u.s. president, politics, secret agent, danger ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, north korea, north america, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 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 ⇓
62%
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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 ⇓
60%
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 ⇓
57%
London Has Fallen (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, psychotronic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, terrorist, hostage, president, terrorist attack, conspiracy, survival, danger, save the day, assassination, head of state ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, buckingham palace, tokyo, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.1
 86K
Mile 22 (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China
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: exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorist, black ops, top secret, surveillance, cia, shootout, hand to hand combat, rogue agent, spy, computer cracker, machismo, political corruption ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: southeast asia, asia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms, and eventually ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, spy, corruption, disobeying orders, undercover, police, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, british intelligence, missing person ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, united kingdom, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Point Men (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Luxembourg, USA
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: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, mossad, espionage, assassination, undercover, secret agent, vengeance, save the day, working undercover, female warrior, bodyguard, rivalry ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, jerusalem, tel aviv israel, austria, zurich switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Berlin File (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: JUNG Jin-soo, a South Korean intelligence agent, comes across an unidentifiable operative, a 'ghost,' while surveilling a North Korean weapons deal in Berlin. The mystery figure is a North Korean secret agent, PYO Jong-seong, whose ...
Style: tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: espionage, double agent, spy, intrigue, hidden identity, on the run, manhunt, chase, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, berlin germany, germany, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Numbers Station (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, spy, secret service, survival, twists and turns, assassination, happy ending, adaptation, vengeance, betrayal, cia, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, new jersey, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.4
 329K
Salt (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude ...
Style: exciting, suspense, surprise ending, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: cia, female protagonist, espionage, secret service, spy, strong female lead, double agent, chase, agent as target, one woman army, female spy, female assassin ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: new york, north korea, washington d.c., russia, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.6
 6K
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 ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political conspiracy, frame up, manhunt, investigation, on the run, assassination, death row, conspiracy, sniper, false accusation, bomb, parachuting ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.8
 7K
The Suspect (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Dong-chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover their corpses. He soon finds ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: spy, espionage, hitman, intrigue, political conspiracy, false accusation, law enforcement, assassination, betrayal, danger, frame up, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.1
 10K
Carter (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A man wakes up missing his memories. Directed by a mysterious voice from a device in his ear, he sets off on a hostage rescue mission rife with danger.
Style: serious, suspenseful, twisted, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot: violent, agent, amnesia, female warrior, survival, fight, target, martial arts, fight club, virus, cia, computer game ...
Time: 2020s
Place: south korea, north korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.6
 93K
Anna (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Style: suspense, action thriller, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: spy, female assassin, female protagonist, female spy, one woman army, female agent, cia agent, murder, double agent, assassin, model, russian spy ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 80s, year 1985 ...
Place: paris france, moscow russia, russia, milan italy, bahamas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.7
 5K
Submerged (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into ...
Style: stylized, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, martial arts, espionage, rescue, undercover, soldier, heroes, daring rescue, good versus evil, working undercover, government agency, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped niece and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, romantic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, soldier, kidnapping, daring rescue, save the day, rivalry, danger, military, chase, wrestling, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: british columbia, usa, seattle, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Detonator II: Night Watch (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Croatia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch". The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and involves them in not only art ...
Style: suspense, serious, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: art theft, espionage, investigation, partner, undercover, spy, danger, escapades, female warrior, famous painting, heist, forgery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: amsterdam, asia, europe, new york, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
From Paris with Love (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig, working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with ...
Style: entertaining, intense, semi serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, spy, terrorism, chase, heroic mission, embassy, danger, one man army, shootout, twists and turns, espionage, secret agent ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 3.1
 686
Airborne (1998)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bill McNeil heads a black ops team called "Mach 1" called in to retrieve a cannister of deadly viral agent which was stolen from the government by an arms dealer. The team retrieve the weapon but the team is setup. Bill knows a traitor is ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female warrior, terrorism, 007, die hard, monster, corrupt cop, airplane, profanity, murder, race against time, danger, tough girl ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.7
 1K
Typhoon (2005)
Genre: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Myung-sin, who has become a pirate, lives with hatred in his heart and endures the hardships, seeks revenge on the two nations, North and South Korea, using nuclear waste that has the devastating power of plutonium. Se-jong, a South Korean naval ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, secret agent, politics, heroes, save the day, undercover, heroic mission, losing-it hero, betrayal, race against time, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea, russia, asia, southeast asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Command Performance (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, confined, danger, tough heroes, government agent, american abroad, die hard, heroes, violent content, delivery, rock ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
La Femme Nikita (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, secret life, government agency, double agent, love, disguise, femme fatale, female assassin, female killer, kickass women, spy, cover up ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
37%
 3.9
 9K
Derailed (2002)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 89 min.
Story: NATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin (Laura Harring), who has stolen an extremely valuable and dangerous top-secret container from the Slovakian ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: runaway train, train, terrorism, race against time, fight scenes, terrorist plot, rescue, secret agent, save the day, chases and races, betrayal, martial arts ...
Time: year 2002
Place: vienna, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
SAS: Red Notice (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether ...
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, action thriller ...
Plot: swat team, terrorism, underground, female terrorist, hostile takeover, sniper, hostage situation, military, train, deception, terrorist, woman fights a man ...
Time: 2020s
Place: english channel, london, england, georgia, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.6
 584
The Elite (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After the murder of their families by a terrorist bomb, five young adults are trained as a hi-tech, anti-terrorist team with a mission to search and destroy high-profile terrorist groups.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: terrorism, undercover, secret agent, danger, chases and races, u.s. navy, female warrior, government agency, daring rescue, save the day, one man army, heroes ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 2000s
Place: europe, greece, athens greece, washington d.c., austria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.0
 62K
The Peacemaker (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, political thriller, visually stunning, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, secret service, train crash, terrorist, car chase, espionage, cold war, die hard, disaster, 007, nuclear ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, russia, bosnia, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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