Movies like True Lies
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True Lies (1994)
300K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government. For years, he has kept his job from his wife, but is forced to reveal his identity and try to stop nuclear terrorists when he and his wife are kidnapped by them.
Style:
action comedy, humorous, semi serious, funny, suspense, entertaining, breathtaking, spoof, sexual, cute ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
spy, secret service, espionage, secret agent, undercover, agent, surveillance, one man army, tango, love and romance, terrorism, spy spoof, terrorist plot, family problems, race against time, heroic mission, crumbling marriage, terrorist, affair, 007, bad girl, epic battle, voyeurism, undercover agent, truth serum ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 80s, twentieth century, 1990s
Place:
florida, miami, rhode island, maryland, key west florida, usa, switzerland ...
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Most similar movies to True Lies
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, entertaining, realistic and humorous films with plots about spy, vengeance, chase, gun, weapons, mentor and undercover mostly in Action, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like True Lies: RED (2010), Knight and Day (2010), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
337K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Style:
exciting, action comedy, entertaining, action thriller, satanic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot:
assassin, cia, spy, hitman, secret service, chase, female spy, on the run, ex cia agent, mercenary, mission, gunfight ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, kansas, langley virginia, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Spain, Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately ...
Style:
romantic, exciting, action comedy, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, boys' night, date night ...
Plot:
spy, secret agent, cia, espionage, chase, couples, on the run, fbi, chases and races, assassin, undercover, gunfight ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
boston, austria, spain, kansas, europe ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith are stuck in a huge rut. Unbeknownst to each other, they are both coolly lethal, highly-paid assassins working for rival organisations. When they discover ...
Style:
sexy, entertaining, romantic, exciting, action comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
secret agent, hitman, spy, secret identity, secret service, couples, battle of the sexes, cia, strong female lead, female killer, tough girl, female assassin ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, iran, italy, coney island brooklyn new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, action thriller, saga, realistic ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hacking, computer hacker, hacker, terrorism, conspiracy, gunfight, one man army, tough cop, lone hero, fbi, chaos, surveillance ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., maryland, los angeles, new york, baltimore ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are ...
Style:
stylized, witty, humorous, action comedy, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, secret service, reluctant partners, culture clash, cia, cia agent, undercover, chase, secret agent, mission ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, year 2015, 2010s, 1900s ...
Place:
italy, germany, london, rome italy, east germany ...
Similarity:
83%
45K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Martial-arts megastar Jackie Chan wrote, directed and stars in this action-comedy. Secret agent Jackie (Chan) leads a commando group to Africa to kidnap scientists who are working to unleash a powerful -- and lethal -- new energy source. When Jackie ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, entertaining, humorous, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, secret agent, kung fu, chase, master warrior, fight, wuxia, fistfight, female agent, female spy, danger, on the run ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
hong kong, africa, east asia, south africa, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
188K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Russia, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Style:
entertaining, satanic, exciting, action adventure, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
spy, hitman, cia agent, assassin, cia, secret service, agent, female spy, superhero, mercenary, comic book, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia, england, paris france, usa, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, action comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
military, u.s. navy, island, terrorism, exotic island, save the day, law enforcement, farce, military life, race against time, nothing goes right, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
pentagon, cuba
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Style:
exciting, intense, tech noir, action packed, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
terrorism, revenge, terrorist, vigilante, vigilantism, heroes, one man army, vengeance, firefighter, righteous rage, loss of son, loss of wife ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
colombia, washington d.c., south america, latin america, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
738K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic, Germany, Bahamas, Italy
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond – on his maiden ...
Style:
sexy, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, chick flick, manly
Plot:
007, spy, poker, james bond, espionage, secret service, chase, casino, cia, undercover, terrorist, heroic mission ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
montenegro, britain, bahamas, italy, europe ...
Similarity:
60%
313K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate ...
Style:
humorous, buddy comedy, exciting, funny, action comedy ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddy cop, drug lord, murder, murder investigation, partners against crime, two man army, law enforcement, friendship between men, police corruption, police investigation, african american, working undercover ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, florida, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tattooed Interpol agent helps an old classmate find the kidnapped daughter of a computer software tycoon.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, entertaining, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
french riviera, europe
Similarity:
100%
55K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, parody, spoof, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
espionage, secret agent, undercover, redemption, boxing, malice, james bond spoof, secret service, spy spoof, violent woman, kidnapping, cia ...
Time:
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Place:
monte carlo, budapest, central europe, las vegas, washington d.c.
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jun is a top agent of the National Intelligence Service who can strike down dozens of terrorists in one fell swoop. Disenchanted with his life, Jun disguises his death and succeeds in leaving the NIS to lead a normal life as a family man and fulfill ...
Style:
action comedy, exciting, humorous, fast paced, lighthearted ...
Plot:
secret service, martial arts, hitman, spy, hotshot hero, secret identity, villain, husband wife relationship, drastic change of life, conspiracy, betrayal, secret agent ...
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
100%
147K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
Style:
clever, surprise ending, intense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
spy, cia, espionage, twists and turns, secret service, undercover, double agent, basic training, traitor, caper, hotshot hero, rookie ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
boston, washington d.c., peru, usa, langley virginia ...
Similarity:
100%
177K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Veteran spy Nathan Muir is on the verge of retiring from the CIA when he learns that his one-time protégé and close friend, Tom Bishop, is a political prisoner sentenced to die in Beijing. Although their friendship has been marred by bad blood and ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, clever, stylized, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, cia, spy, mentor, undercover, working undercover, terrorist, conspiracy, hitman, government agency, life risking, cold war ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
china, saigon, washington d.c., munich germany, shanghai ...
Similarity:
100%
43K
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to obtain a computer circuit for the missile that he is planning to fire, so Steele teams up with ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, slapstick, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
james bond spoof, spy spoof, farce, secret agent, satire, kgb, spying, goofy hero, heroic mission, disorder, assassination, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne ...
Style:
exciting, intense, action thriller, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
cia, conspiracy, spy, espionage, secret agent, corruption, secret service, escapades, hitman, tough guy, fighting the system, one man army ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
langley virginia, new york, moscow russia, tangier morocco, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.
Style:
action comedy, humorous, intense, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
espionage, spy, terrorism, partner, culture clash, hidden camera, cia, secret service, twin brother, betrayal, lone hero, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, langley virginia, new york, europe, los angeles ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing ...
Style:
spy action, saga, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
james bond, spy, agent, 007, cold war, spy hero, train, vigilante, assassin, secret service, secret agent, espionage ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
turkey, russia, istanbul turkey, venice, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.
Style:
melancholic, entertaining, realistic, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, espionage, secret agent, spy spoof, lone hero, fish out of water, eccentric family, secret identity, chaos, dentist, disorder, couples ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, prague, chicago, france, egypt
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, UK, Austria, Morocco, Hong Kong
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
Style:
sexy, breathtaking, entertaining, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night ...
Plot:
conspiracy, spy, cia agent, female agent, rogue agent, espionage, tough guy, female spy, secret service, tough girl, undercover, secret agent ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, austria, vienna, morocco, europe ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Canada, Czech Republic, India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion ...
Style:
exciting, action adventure, breathtaking, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
spy, espionage, cia, mission, gunfight, frame up, female spy, escapades, undercover, chases and races, tough guy, working undercover ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, budapest, washington state, bay area, iran ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Style:
sexy, exciting, action comedy, clever, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot:
secret agent, spy, espionage, secret service, secret organization, undercover, mentor, british, tough guy, chase, murder, undercover agent ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 90s, year 1997, 21st century
Place:
england, london, britain, kentucky, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
33%
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:
suspense, clever, tense, political thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, manly, kids
Plot:
surveillance, conspiracy, cia, on the run, espionage, political conspiracy, intelligence, violence, murder, manhunt, fighting the system, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., baltimore, iraq, maryland, afghanistan ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A mysterious space craft kidnaps a Russian and American space capsule and brings the world on the verge of another World War. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and meets with his archenemy Blofeld. The fifth film from the legendary James ...
Style:
saga, exciting, witty, spectacular, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, james bond, faked death, 007, secret organization, secret headquarters, espionage, secret service, interracial romance, white man asian woman relationship, sluttiness, slut ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
japan, tokyo, russia, hong kong, asia ...
Similarity:
80%
124K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to ...
Style:
suspense, breathtaking, exciting, action packed, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
conspiracy, twists and turns, rogue agent, gunfight, betrayal, treason, witness protection program, witness, corporate crime, police investigation, one man army, justice ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996, 80s, future
Place:
new york, maryland, usa, baltimore, san francisco ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to a protect beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic ...
Style:
saga, suspense, entertaining, action packed, sexual ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
james bond, 007, terrorism, femme fatale, secret service, agent, oil, secret agent, espionage, chase, spy, sex ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
london, turkey, istanbul turkey, basque country, england ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent. All goes well until circumstances put his secret in danger.
Style:
parody, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
videotaped sex, james bond spoof, spy spoof, disorder, rivalry, heroes, government agency, chases and races, hidden identity, infidelity, secret agent, lovers ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After a giant dinosaur skull is stolen, the head of the Chinese secret police decides to assign the case to the force's most incompetent reject: a rural butcher who stands around all day drinking martinis (shaken, not stirred). With a trunkload ...
Style:
spoof, slapstick, parody, fast, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
james bond spoof, spy spoof, spy, asian, secret agent, butcher, yakuza, agent, fight club, fight, espionage, undercover ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia, beijing china
Similarity:
100%
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