Movies like Unknown

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Unknown (2011)
 6.8
 269K
Unknown (2011)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.
Style: surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, tense, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, twisted, serious, suspense thriller ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, memory loss, investigation, amnesia, uncover truth, assassin, conspiracy, secret service, chase, disorder, danger, mysterious character, spy, lone hero, hidden identity, espionage, coma, cia, peril, life turned upside down, mind game, escape, on the run, home invasion, hitman ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: berlin germany, germany
Keyword: gangsters, superior, german, doctors, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious and clever films with plots about twists and turns, murder, pistol, conspiracy, spy, chases and races and gun mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Action genres. Some movies like Unknown: The Bourne Supremacy (2004), Non-Stop (2014), The Bourne Identity (2002), Enemy of the State (1998), Shutter Island (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Russia, India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation ...
Style: suspense, exciting, intellectual, serious, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, manly
Plot: spy, cia, conspiracy, amnesia, espionage, on the run, hitman, revenge, assassin, secret agent, tough heroes, dark past ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, europe, berlin germany, manhattan new york city, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 276K
Non-Stop (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New ...
Style: suspense, clever, detective, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: airplane, twists and turns, terrorism, hostage, air disaster, danger, terrorist, save the day, hijacking, investigation, mind game, heroes ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him ...
Style: political thriller, intense, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: spy, amnesia, cia, secret agent, secret service, hitman, tough heroes, espionage, one against many, on the run, escape, black ops ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, hamburg germany, greece, europe, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 ⇓
88%
Movie in collections
 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.3
 171K
Flightplan (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: airplane, twists and turns, kidnapping, missing child, conspiracy, female protagonist, family relations, flight attendant, little girl, mother daughter relationship, airplane accident, grief ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, persia, newfoundland, new york, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.6
 195K
Eagle Eye (2008)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, intense, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: surveillance, artificial intelligence, chase, mysterious character, investigation, technology gone awry, life turned upside down, computers and web, fugitives, chases and races, imaginary, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2008, near future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., afghanistan, chicago, indianapolis indiana, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.7
 426K
The Game (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 125K
The Commuter (2018)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, China, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
Style: exciting, surprise ending, tense, suspense, detective ...
Plot: train, conspiracy, train station, fight, blood, police, attempted murder, witness, deception, destruction, cop, train crash ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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%
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
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, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: cia, conspiracy, espionage, spy, secret agent, corruption, secret service, escapades, hitman, fighting the system, danger, memory ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: langley virginia, new york, paris france, tangier morocco, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Seeking Justice (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, tense, serious ...
Plot: twists and turns, revenge, conspiracy, vigilante, vigilantism, conspiracy theory, rape, life turned upside down, secret movement, murder, plot twist, fbi ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 104K
Self/less (2015)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, philosophical, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: immortality, body swapping, life philosophy, cloning, soul transference, technology, twists and turns, uncover truth, chase, disorder, moral dilemma, billionaire ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2015, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa, peru, new york, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 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%
 6.2
 189K
Inferno (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, crime thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: conspiracy, twists and turns, ancient mystery, treasure hunt, danger, memory loss, religions or cults, riddles and clues, church, conspiracy theory, biohazard, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: italy, florence, europe, istanbul turkey, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.0
 69K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, murder, family relations, mental patient, riddles and clues, nervous breakdown, danger ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Operative (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Style: exciting, psychological, suspense, powerful
Plot: mossad, spy, female spy, molestation, female secret agent, female nudity, secret agent, twists and turns, deception, disguise, couple relations, secret service ...
Time: year 2019
Place: iran, palestine, tehran, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 113K
Paycheck (2003)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, tech noir, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, memory loss, time travel, twists and turns, gunfight, frame up, chase, seeing the future, changing the past or future, betrayal, amnesia, time machine ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.2
 703K
Now You See Me (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Style: surprise ending, clever, entertaining, suspense, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, twists and turns, fbi, scheme, perfect crime, outsmarting, bank robbery, con artists, teamwork, cons and scams, mind game, thief ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, new orleans, new york, paris france, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 45K
Forgotten (2017)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: plot twist, brother brother relationship, memory loss, uncover truth, home invasion, delusion, revenge, twists and turns, new house, deception, chase, childhood memory ...
Place: south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, uncover truth, life turned upside down, investigation, psychology, power relations, doctors and patients, false identity, domestic violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2014, year 2000, year 2007, year 2013 ...
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.1
 83K
Abduction (2011)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, teen, suspense, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: teenager, danger, chase, life turned upside down, young heroes, chases and races, on the run, missing person, cia, uncover truth, kidnapping, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 363K
Jack Reacher (2012)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher ...
Style: detective, serious, exciting, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: investigation, sniper, loner, hitman, vigilantism, assassin, murder, tough guy, ex military, lone hero, one man army, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa, iraq, seattle, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.7
 32K
Cypher (2002)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Style: suspenseful, tense, stylized, enigmatic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, memory loss, espionage, twists and turns, spy, distopia, brainwashing, dystopian future, uncover truth, hidden identity, power relations, double agent ...
Time: future, year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 308K
Angels & Demons (2009)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon investigates a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. He discovers evidence of the unimaginable, the rebirth of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati, the most powerful ...
Style: exciting, intellectual, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: conspiracy, murder, twists and turns, illuminati, investigation, catholicism, vatican, riddles and clues, danger, secret society, religions or cults, religion ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, harvard university, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 234K
Safe House (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, intense, tense ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, secret service, secret agent, on the run, gunfight, cia agent, betrayal, conspiracy, mercenary, corruption, rogue agent ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: cape town south africa, africa, south africa, iran, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, espionage, terrorism, undercover agent, conspiracy, terrorist, race against time, murder, government agency, undercover, corruption, assassin ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, 2000s, year 2001 ...
Place: russia, new york, afghanistan, london, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 125K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.0
 256K
The Tourist (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: American tourist Frank (Johnny Depp) meets mysterious British woman Elsie (Angelina Jolie) on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye. Remake of the 2005 French film "Anthony Zimmer", ...
Style: exciting, surprise ending, twist ending, romantic, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love story, twists and turns, outsmarting, undercover agent, mysterious character, master criminal, female spy, female agent, femme fatale, love, manipulation, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice, europe, iran, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.2
 1.0M
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, psychology, plot twist, psychiatrist, death, life & death, psychic, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place: usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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