Movies like Sleeping Dogs 1977
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Sleeping Dogs (1977)
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions. Written by Mike Welsch
Style:
apocalyptic, political, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tragic ending, independent film
Plot:
dystopia, revolution, dystopian future, distopia, civil war, heroes, politics, murder, terrorism, conspiracy, life is a bitch, intrigue, rebellion, frame up, chases and races, fighting the system, rivalry, society, infidelity, manhunt, chaos, law enforcement, false accusation, rebelliousness, political unrest ...
Time:
70s, near future
Place:
new zealand
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Most similar movies to Sleeping Dogs
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about state affairs, deadly, heroes, dishonesty, danger, politics and terrorism mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Sleeping Dogs: The Enemy Within (1994), Hennessy (1975), Ignition (2001), The Domino Killings (1977), The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, realistic, tense, political thriller
Plot:
coup d'etat, conspiracy, terrorism, political corruption, state affairs, betrayal, government agency, undercover, manhunt, special agent, revolution, danger ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
95%
958
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:
political, grindhouse, offbeat, independent film, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ira, anglo irish relations, explosions, revenge, manhunt, terrorism, violent content, repression, royal family, political corruption, political intrigue, political unrest ...
Time:
year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
ireland, london, england, europe, belfast
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, military, manhunt, fighting the system, life turned upside down, special agent, tough heroes, assassination, dishonesty, rebellion, danger, law enforcement ...
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. Now, serving a long stretch in ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, vietnam war, prison, assassination, terrorism, paranoia, vietnam veteran, prison escape, murder, communism, paranoid, conspiracy theory ...
Time:
70s
Place:
asia, vietnam, europe, spain, san francisco ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
on the run, racism, chase, injustice, betrayal, state affairs, danger, against the rules, politics, secret agent, false accusation, political corruption ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The World Of Mass Communication Is About To Become Unplugged.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tech noir
Plot:
murder, journalism, uncover truth, investigation, politics, terrorism, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, danger, false accusation, political conspiracy, political corruption ...
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam ...
Style:
political thriller, political, neo noir, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear threat, vietnam war, cold war, president, u.s. president, danger, terrorism, conspiracy, nuclear missile, military, u.s. military, u.s. air force ...
Place:
montana, usa, vietnam, asia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put ...
Style:
sexy, exciting, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
heiress, revolution, politics, decadence, revenge, betrayal, rape, corruption, treasure hunt, protest, age-gap relationship, murder ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 1945
Place:
europe, latin america, italy, new york, south america ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, political thriller, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, conspiracy, on the run, betrayal, assassination, corruption, assassination plot, politics, lone hero, political corruption, assassination attempt, intrigue ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot:
iron curtain, cold war, kgb, spy, espionage, assassination, undercover, politics, danger, dishonesty, journalism, government agency ...
Time:
20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place:
east germany, germany, east berlin, paris france, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" ...
Style:
political, independent film, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
strike, labor, liberal, union, college, labor union, counterculture, student protest, socialism, terrorism, injustice, courtroom ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Dong-chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover their corpses. He soon finds ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, hitman, intrigue, inter-korean relations, political conspiracy, false accusation, frame up, danger, law enforcement, betrayal, assassination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, korea
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Style:
action thriller, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mossad, terrorist, terrorism, conflict, olympics, revenge, israeli palestinian conflict, arab israeli conflict, murder, workplace situations, chases and races, contests and competitions ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, munich germany
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style:
political thriller, tense, political, black and white, suspense ...
Plot:
cold war, conspiracy, politics, u.s. air force, white house, terrorism, president, coup d'etat, u.s. president, betrayal, mistress, espionage ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, future, 70s
Place:
austin texas, russia, texas, spain, america ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, fighting the system, race against time, undercover, assassination, rebellion, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty, government agency, society ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
terrorist attack, international law, environmental, spy, environmental issue, disaster, conspiracy, special agent, terrorism, politics, investigation, heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A website where people can virtually live in a true democracy becomes so popular that its leading members take questionable actions to improve the real world as well. This backfires and various governments brand them terrorists.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, talky, contemplative ...
Plot:
revolution, society, secret movement, fighting the system, politics, rebelliousness, social decay, political corruption, anti capitalism, political unrest, state affairs, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
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:
kgb, politics, presidential election, espionage, uncover truth, race against time, fighting the system, chases and races, government agency, heroes, danger, secret agent ...
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, who done it, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, murder, confined, legal ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, rome italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A fictional version of the events that led to the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. The movie is based upon the book "The sixth of May" by Tomas Ross.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, uncover truth, political conspiracy, state affairs, assassination, dishonesty, life is a bitch, politics, fighting the system, immigrant, animal life, gays and lesbians ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An American army intelligence officer discovers corruption and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, military, car chase, undercover, rebellion, fighting the system, espionage, military life, vengeance, danger, terrorism, race against time ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
cambodia, china, asia, vietnam
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast
Plot:
manhunt, false accusation, uncover truth, assassination, disorder, danger, politics, life is a bitch, chases and races, state affairs, chase, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
36%
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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, martial arts, politics, on the run, heroes, assassination, murder, conspiracy, manhunt, undercover, protagonist as suspect, espionage ...
Place:
british columbia, usa
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg, USA
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 ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, soldier, spy, covert operation, anglo irish relations, ira, terrorism, british monarchy, assassination attempt, hitman, political conspiracy, working undercover ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, england
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marty Rockman, the notorious producer of the hit reality-TV show "So Sue Me", has a brand new concept: "Citizen Verdict". Each week a real criminal case will be tried before the American people, but this time they're also ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
jury, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal investigation, media, rebellion, state affairs, legal, law enforcement, life is a bitch, society, fighting the system ...
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, stylized, exciting, cyber
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, friendship, assassination, dystopian future, state affairs, obsessive quest, political unrest, terrorism, gays and lesbians, politics, political intrigue, heroic mission ...
Time:
1900s, future, 20th century, 2000s, year 2009
Place:
japan, asia, korea
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, reluctant partners, assassination, senator, bomb squad, investigation, danger, undercover, police detective, government agency, politics, special agent ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several ...
Style:
suspense, controversial, splatter, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
terrorist, dystopia, island, terrorism, vengeance, violent, dystopian future, revenge, terrorist group, friendship, game of death, violence ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, afghanistan, asia, israel
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot:
assassination, politics, murder, political corruption, political conspiracy, moral dilemma, kidnapping, conspiracy, frame up, state affairs, emotionless, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
terrorism, kidnapping, rescue, danger, spy, assassination attempt, heroes, law enforcement, special agent, rivalry, agent, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
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