Movies like The Cold Light of Day

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The Cold Light of Day (2012)
 4.9
 39K
The Cold Light of Day (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, political thriller, action packed, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, espionage, government, life turned upside down, twists and turns, danger, family in danger, conspiracy, father son relationship, government agent, police chase, unlikely hero, female assassin, assassin, mossad, hitman, muslim, undercover agent, undercover, wrestling, cavalry, propaganda, secret mission, secret agent, spy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century, contemporary
Place: spain, madrid

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Most similar movies to The Cold Light of Day

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, realistic and serious films with plots about shootout, pistol, murder, danger, martial arts, violence and shot to death mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Cold Light of Day: Cellular (2004), Abduction (2011), Erased (2012), Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018), Salt (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.5
 105K
Cellular (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, sexy, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, race against time, cell phone, secrets, home invasion, police corruption, lone hero, runaway, kidnapped, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
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 ⇓
75%
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, France, Norway, UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story: When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfil his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against ...
Style: action adventure, fast, action drama, action packed, political thriller ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: spy, terrorist, hand to hand combat, agent, plutonium, espionage, violence, tough guy, female spy, rogue agent, mission impossible, cia ...
Time: 2010s
Place: kashmir, london, ireland, rome italy, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 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 ⇓
100%
The November Man (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: cia, secret service, spy, espionage, conspiracy, hostage, brutality, secret agent, female agent, surveillance, assassin, violence ...
Time: year 2008, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: montenegro, belgrade serbia, switzerland, usa, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
50%
 5.8
 90K
Haywire (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by ...
Style: talky, intense, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: one woman army, spy, secret agent, espionage, betrayal, assassin, rescue, mercenary, chases and races, revenge, danger, rivalry ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: ireland, washington d.c., europe, usa, mallorca ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.1
 12K
Extraction (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Plot: terrorist, death of wife, female warrior, machismo, rescue, father son relationship, brutality, deception, murder, revenge, death, escape ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s, year 2004, year 2005 ...
Place: langley virginia, eastern europe, central europe, prague, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.6
 19K
The Prince (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, daring rescue, partner, justice, danger, retired, confined, haunted by the past, father daughter relationship, revenge, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
31%
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons ...
Style: tense, melancholic, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: father son relationship, tough cop, two man army, bomb, car chase, cia agent, 007, terrorism, spy, violence, agent, american abroad ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, seattle, new york, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
29%
 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 ⇓
29%
 6.6
 241K
Jason Bourne (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Spain, Japan, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, intense, action adventure ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing
Plot: spy, cia, espionage, black ops, chase, hitman, rogue agent, assassin, betrayal, assassination, revenge, lone hero ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, reykjavik iceland, berlin germany, rome italy, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
 6.6
 180K
RED 2 (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Russia
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, exciting, witty, action adventure, spy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: spy, hitman, cia, agent, cia agent, secret service, superhero, mercenary, assassin, comic book, mad scientist, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, england, paris france, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 78K
The Siege (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law.
Style: suspense, political, intense, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, cia, martial law, lone hero, siege, fbi, conspiracy theory, military, spy, espionage, civil rights, president ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Direct Contact (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe, is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But, shortly after freeing her discovers that the kidnap story was just a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, confined, daring rescue, tough heroes, danger, chases and races, father daughter relationship, rescue, one man army, heroes, prison violence, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, russia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.1
 382K
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: John McClane is an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, action packed, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: gunfight, christmas, airplane, fight scenes, airport, one man army, police, hostage, terrorism, lone hero, chase, commando ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: washington d.c., washington state, virginia, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
One in the Chamber (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes, violence spree, chases and races, murder, mob boss, gangster, corruption, mob hit, stalking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, prague, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.6
 1K
Sharpshooter (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, betrayal, sniper, conspiracy, on the run, danger, save the day, special agent, race against time, manhunt, rivalry, undercover ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
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 6.4
 135K
Killer Elite (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, hitman, secret service, mentor, conspiracy, hostage, undercover, rescue, espionage, mercenary, secret agent, assassination ...
Time: year 2011, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: middle east, london, australia, iran, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.3
 12K
The Hit List (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: unfaithful, murder, terminator, police investigation, life turned upside down, fish out of water, family in danger, psychopath, hitman, danger, on the run, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
 6.6
 142K
The Recruit (2003)
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: surprise ending, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: spy, cia, twists and turns, secret service, espionage, double agent, basic training, undercover, hotshot hero, rookie, recruit, deception ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., boston, usa, peru, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
26%
 7.0
 323K
RED (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, China
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, entertaining, action comedy, witty, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: spy, cia, hitman, secret service, chase, assassin, mission, gunfight, on the run, ex cia agent, female spy, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, iran, kansas city, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 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 ⇓
26%
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