Movies like Midnight Man
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Midnight Man (1997)
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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 the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme that could result in trouble between China and Great Britain.
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Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, undercover, spy, irish republican army, anglo irish relations, terrorism, ira, assassination attempt, british monarchy, heroes, hitman, militant, kgb, graphic violence, espionage, royal family, rivalry, political intrigue, working undercover, political conspiracy, sexual content, law enforcement, assassination, government agency, downfall ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
ireland, england
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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, heroes, chases and races, state affairs, deadly, rivalry and undercover mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Midnight Man: On Dangerous Ground (1996), Hennessy (1975), Silent Trigger (1996), The Way of War (2009), The Enemy Within (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, england, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
699
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:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, london, europe, england, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, state affairs, assassination, political corruption, political conspiracy, dishonesty, government agency, race against time, military, political intrigue, conspiracy, one against many ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c., middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Admiral McKee (Tom Skerritt) is retired, when following the events of 9/11 he receives a call from the White House informing him that his commander in chief requires him to serve his country once again. Shortly after this he is sworn into office as ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
209
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they ...
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Time:
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⇓ 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.
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada, UK
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Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
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exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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tense, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
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Duration: 103 min.
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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
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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