Movies like Orion's Belt

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Orion's Belt (1985)
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Orion's Belt (1985)
Original name: Orions belte
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/smugglers/tourist guides Tom, Lars and Sverre discover the Soviet Union aren't just mining for coal in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This is a secret too big for any of them, and soon they find themselves hunted down by soviet forces and secret agents.
Style: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, winter, boat, landscape, society, working class, iron curtain, war, politics, captivity, conspiracy, adventurer, chases and races, escapades, danger, confined, military base, state affairs, anti hero, dog, ocean, island, escape, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: russia, europe, oslo norway
Keyword: norwegian, norway, russian

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Most similar movies to Orion's Belt

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about danger, chases and races, spy, heroes, undercover, espionage and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Orion's Belt: A Lonely Place for Dying (2009), Bullet to Beijing (1995), Avalanche Express (1979), On Dangerous Ground (1996), Double Agent (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Lonely Place for Dying (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, kgb, law enforcement, confined, danger, undercover, chase, escapades, spy, cold war, vietnam war, politics ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: vietnam, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Bullet to Beijing (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA, Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biological warfare, spy, conspiracy, intrigue, state affairs, danger, political conspiracy, secret agent, dishonesty, save the day, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: russia, beijing china, asia, europe, korea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Avalanche Express (1979)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey they must ...
Style: political thriller, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cold war, railway, disaster, train, natural disaster, stranger on a train, law enforcement, intelligence, avalanche, cia, bio weapon ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: central europe, milan italy, zurich switzerland, alps, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
On Dangerous Ground (1996)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, 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 ...
Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, spy, terrorism, special agent, secret agent, violent content, conspiracy, rivalry, state affairs, race against time, working undercover, political conspiracy ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, england, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Double Agent (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A North Korean diplomat defects to the South during the Cold War, but the South Koreans have their suspicions as to whether he is an actual defector or a double agent.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: spy, soldier, politics, save the day, state affairs, political conspiracy, undercover, terrorism, journalism, investigation, dishonesty, political intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, north korea, korea, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 4.1
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The Inside Man (1984)
Genre: Mystery, Action, Thriller
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. ...
Style: political thriller, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, law enforcement, spy, secret agent, espionage, working undercover, heist, political conspiracy, missing person, rivalry, criminal heroes, state affairs ...
Time: 80s
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Final Option (1982)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, undercover, hostage, state affairs, isolation, danger, politics, rivalry, working undercover, nuclear holocaust, anti war ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: england, london, europe, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, heroic mission, rescue, race against time, danger, save the day, politics, secret agent, special agent, government agency, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: romania, europe, bucharest, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Jigsaw Man (1983)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB ...
Style: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, face, 007, james bond, surgery, law enforcement, spy thriller, kgb, british intelligence, traitor ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: russia, soviet union, europe, england, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Extraction (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner extraction mission. Forced to fight his way out of a maximum-security Chechen prison, he must keep his ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic mission, daring rescue, one man army, danger, prison, conflict, escape, master warrior, heroes, violent content, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Black Windmill (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Style: bloody, political thriller, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cold war, undercover, politics, secret agent, agent, ransom, murder, undercover agent, father son relationship, machine gun, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, london, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.7
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Icon (2005)
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, fast, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: politics, espionage, uncover truth, race against time, presidential election, chases and races, heroes, fighting the system, danger, government agency, secret agent, state affairs ...
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Democratic Terrorist (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hamilton is assigned to infiltrate a terrorist group in West Germany, a part of the Red Army Faction (RAF), that supposedly are planning an operation in Sweden. Hamilton is chosen because of his background in the leftist movement. As a member of the ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, raf, secret agent, terrorism, undercover, espionage, heroes, dishonesty, moral dilemma, rivalry, race against time, danger ...
Time: 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mission to Tokyo (1966)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: US 24, an American Navy base in a small island in the Pacific, is annihilated. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a French aristocrat that is also a secret agent, OSS 117, is sent to Tokyo to investigate who did it. Soon, he finds out that a cypher girl ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
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Time: 20th century, 60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Depth Charge (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jason Gedrick and Eric Roberts lead the cast of this thriller about a submarine captain who attempts to hold Washington, D.C. hostage for a billion dollars, and the heroic doctor who struggles to thwart the plan before the situation escalates.
Style: rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: submarine, confined, hostage, save the world, danger, terrorism, good versus evil, state affairs, save the day, nuclear threat, blackmail, extortion ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, political thriller, political ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: submarine, cold war, spy, navy, espionage, nuclear threat, cia, politics, underwater, nuclear submarine, u.s. navy, sea ...
Time: 80s, year 1990, year 1984, 20th century
Place: russia, washington d.c., usa, maine, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Storm Catcher (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered ...
Style: realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, conspiracy, heroes, terrorist, state affairs, dishonesty, political conspiracy, false accusation, confined, rivalry, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Counterstrike (2002)
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: daring rescue, terrorism, hostage, rescue, special agent, save the day, confined, escapades, danger, race against time, undercover, rivalry ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Liquidator (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A highly skilled bodyguard avenging his brother's untimely death uncovers a ring of corruption extending to the highest levels of society and government (IMDb.com).
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, vigilantism, murder, vengeance, danger, secret movement, government, corruption, conspiracy, chases and races, rivalry, espionage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, undercover, rescue, state affairs, chases and races, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Born American (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three American students vacationing in Finland, cross the border into Russia for fun of it. When they are spotted by the Russian soldiers who are shooting to kill, it's not fun anymore. Captured and thrown in jail, they find it's not fun ...
Style: suspense, stylized, harsh, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, torture, violence, blood, kgb, stereotypes, politics, false accusation, state affairs, danger, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time: 80s
Place: russia, finland, soviet union, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, crime gone awry, survival, on the run, chase, disorder, danger, escapades, chases and races, isolation, drug dealing, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Fatal Justice (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border, the CIA maintains a force of domestic assassins. So secret is their work that their retirement program is a bullet in the head. Up-and-coming hitwoman, Diana, gets the order to dispatch Mars, a legendary ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, spy, woman with a gun, assassin, cia, female assassin, soldier, special agent, parents and children, state affairs, undercover, aging ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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 ⇓
40%
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Armstrong (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Cold War has just heated up! CIA Agent Bob Taylor (Charles Napier) arrives in Moscow with his new wife Susan (Kimberley Kates) with a highly secret video tape of Russian missiles leaving an unknown base near Moscow under the cover of darkness. ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, die hard, 007, world war, kidnapping, chase, shootout, cia agent, nuclear missile, nuclear, secret agent, gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, car chase, prison, betrayal, on the run, working undercover, cold war, rivalry, danger, heist ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, russia, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
 10K
D-Day (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: 9 years ago Wali Khan (Irrfan Khan) was sent into Karachi, Pakistan by the Chief of RAW Ashwini Rao (Nasser) to report the activities of The Most Wanted Man in India. 9 days ago Rudra Pratap Singh (Arjun Rampal) Indian Armed Forces, MARCOS unit, ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: spy, espionage, terrorism, danger, mission gone awry, working undercover, terrorist, rivalry, islam, revenge, agent, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, pakistan, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.9
 29K
Firefox (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox". Naturally, the British are worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon, as rumours say that the jet is indetectable on radar. They send ex-Vietnam ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, fighter plane, behind enemy lines, espionage, chase, submarine, fighter pilot, fighter jet, aviation, aerial combat, military ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, england, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.0
 4K
Shadow Man (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroes, espionage, undercover, save the day, secret agent, danger, terrorism, master criminal, government agency, rivalry, race against time ...
Place: europe, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Caught in the Headlights (2005)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Story: A federal agent, Kate Parker arrives in a small rural town to extradite Claire Scott, a young woman suspected of murdering a government scientist. Kate is prevented from delivering her prisoner as the mysterious John Lawson, a rouge agent, now ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, stylized ...
Plot: injustice, danger, chases and races, law enforcement, isolation, female criminal, woman with a gun, spy, special agent, fugitives, confined, escapee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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