Movies like Sword of Gideon
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Sword of Gideon (1986)
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Style:
rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
terrorism, mossad, spy, jewish, revenge, arab israeli conflict, heroes, murder, undercover, rebellion, fighting the system, vengeance, rivalry, confined, contests and competitions, assassination, state affairs, workplace situations, terrorist, olympics, covert operation, chases and races, danger, deadly, crimes
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, middle east, munich germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about danger, terrorism, deadly, heroes, rivalry, chases and races and state affairs mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Sword of Gideon: Munich (2005), Beirut (2018), 21 Hours at Munich (1976), Bethlehem (2013), Counterstrike (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
political, suspenseful, intense, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, jewish, spy, mossad, politics, murder, judaism, terrorist, secret agents ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, germany, beirut lebanon, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A former U. S. diplomat returns to service in order to save a former colleague in Beirut.
Style:
political, suspenseful, rough, bleak, social
Plot:
terrorist, hostage, terrorism, mission, intrigue, arab, spy, espionage, attack, fight, heroes, war ...
Time:
year 1972, year 1982, 70s, 80s
Place:
middle east, lebanon, palestine, israel, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, judaism, military, mossad, rivalry, politics, media, violence spree, confined, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Place:
europe, germany, munich germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bethlehem tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur, the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited Sanfur when he was just 15, and developed a ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, sad ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, spy, terrorism, special agents, undercover, moral dilemma, double agent, society, informant, murder, teenager, jewish ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestinian authority, middle east, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
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rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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boys' night
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terrorism, hostage, daring rescue, rescue, confined, save the day, rivalry, race against time, undercover, special agents, escapades, government agency ...
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set in the Seventies, Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of England.
Style:
political, exciting, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ira, irish republican army, revenge, anglo irish relations, terrorism, manhunt, repression, political corruption, royal family, political intrigue, political unrest, rebellion ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, london, europe, england, belfast
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30%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
417
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A former FBI agent must stop a crazy man from blowing up bombs.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, save the day, one man army, undercover, race against time, special agents, vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, master criminal, fbi, campaign ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bahamas, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, spy, retirement, track down, special agents, undercover, secret agents, revenge, suspense, buddies, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c., bucharest, romania, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
630
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
U.S. Army sniper Charlie Snow finds himself at the other end of the crosshairs when the brother of an Eastern European arms dealer whom he killed decides to take vengeance on Charlie and his family in L.A.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
terrorism, rivalry, sniper, law enforcement, soldier, state affairs, graphic violence, hostage, save the day, vengeance, kidnapping, undercover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, political thriller
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
middle east, germany, greece, israel, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
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boys' night
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soldier, undercover, spy, irish republican army, anglo irish relations, ira, terrorism, assassination attempt, british monarchy, militant, hitman, government agency ...
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Place:
ireland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
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Plot:
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Place:
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25%
979
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
209
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous ...
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Critical Assembly is based on two college students (Katherine Heigl and Kerr Smith) who build a nuclear device, which is stolen by a fellow student. When it ends up in the hands of a terrorist, they work with an FBI agent (Beach) in a race against ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, race against time, law enforcement, undercover, state affairs, heroes, media coverage, fbi agent, betrayal, professor, hitman, terrorist group ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a ...
Style:
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Plot:
espionage, terrorism, rivalry, political conspiracy, assassination, special agents, spy, true love, state affairs, contests and competitions, political corruption, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, political thriller
Plot:
conspiracy, political conspiracy, terrorism, political corruption, betrayal, undercover, manhunt, government agency, race against time, state affairs, revolution, political intrigue ...
Time:
90s
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22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ex-CIA agent is hired to protect the daughter of a rich American family.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, bodyguard, daring rescue, rescue, vengeance, confined, heroes, track down, lone wolves, haunted by the past, missing child, revenge ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, intense, political ...
Plot:
war on terror, israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, terror, espionage, covert operation, operation, disguise, government agency, murder, assassination, israeli ...
Place:
palestine, israel
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100%
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 ...
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Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c., middle east
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22%
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:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, politics, bomb, rebellion, society, rivalry, vengeance, state affairs, life is a bitch, terrorism, religions or cults ...
Time:
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Place:
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22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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boys' night
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam ...
Style:
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21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, realistic, serious ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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