Movies like Azad

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Azad (2017)
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Azad (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this futuristic thriller based around resistance against a tyrant government that's propagating religious, political, and racial polarization and xenophobia, a Muslim immigrant flees The West in hopes of leaving his secretive past behind to implement his vision of creating a New World Order and preventing WWIII from happening.
Style: rough, thought provoking, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hispanic
Plot: terrorism, new world order, resistance, religion, world war three, freedom, discrimination, concentration camp, radical, government, judaism, anti semitism, democracy, islamophobia, race, media, nazi, military, hitler, torture, racism, arab, christianity, pope, leonardo da vinci ...
Time: future
Place: turkey, america, china, mexico, russia, iran, pakistan ...
Keyword: jewish, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about terrorism, danger, state affairs, politics, undercover, society and military mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Azad: Infinite Justice (2006), The Infiltrator (1995), Death Without Consent (2007), Rumors of Wars (2014), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Infinite Justice (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
Style: realistic, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: hostage, captivity, politics, terrorism, journalism, prison, confined, rebellion, danger, kidnapping, state affairs, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pakistan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Infiltrator (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Infiltrator is an American film about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany circa the early 1990's and uncovers a story about a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction, who are intent to bring Nazism back to the ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: skinhead, world war two, neo nazi, punk, spy, nazi, judaism, undercover, journalism, racism, immigrant, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Death Without Consent (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Chris Carrington looses his father to hereditary kidney disease. He is painfully aware he may die from it as well. While dealing with the agony of his loss, Chris is unexpectedly contacted by a mysterious Russian immigrant who tells him his father ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, serious
Plot: conspiracy, government, crisis of faith, deception, intrigue, terrorism, religion, underground, weapon of mass destruction
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 4.3
 566
Rumors of Wars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A suspenseful, genre-bending film with two converging storylines. An aspiring college journalist records events in a diary about the turmoil of a society due to the insertion of a RFID chip mandated by the government. ? Years later in the rubble of ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, christian film, exciting ...
Plot: military, post apocalypse, christian, life is a bitch, heroes, dishonesty, danger, political conspiracy, apocalypse, anti war, wartime life, college ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Qatar
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Style: tense, thought provoking, emotional, intense, realistic ...
Plot: immigrant, culture clash, 9/11, wall street, terrorism, conspiracy, political unrest, muslim, civil rights, american dream, false accusation, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, middle east, pakistan, istanbul turkey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 4.7
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The Insurgents (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, politics, conspiracy, bomb, rebellion, state affairs, society, rivalry, terrorism, life is a bitch, danger, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
House of Chains (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It follows a troubled married couple as they imprison their six children due to their intense religious ideology.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: religious, religion, religious faith, parents and children, religious fanatic, religions or cults, religious fanaticism, parent child relationship, children, religious education, kids and family
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.0
 92K
Unthinkable (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: terrorism, counter terrorism, nuclear bomb, investigation, fbi, violence, terrorist, cia, politics, spy, manipulation, interrogation ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 6.5
 2K
Dirty War (2004)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: radical, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, nuclear threat, terrorist plot, firefighter, save the day, secret agent, government agency, undercover, danger, race against time ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.5
 516
El cartel (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on Mexico's current criminal climate, EL CÁRTEL is a rare look into the values and practices of the world's most intriguing and enigmatic industry - the multi-billion dollar business of drug trafficking. When Jules Land, a naïve ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, independent film ...
Plot: drug dealing, border, chase, media, journalist, business, drug cartel, drug, violence, tough heroes, once in a lifetime opportunity, clergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Stand at Paxton County (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: military, rancher, ranch, father daughter relationship, farm, corrupt official, problem, family relations, corruption, capture, horse, corrupt sheriff
Place: north dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
A Dry White Season (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Style: talky, disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: racism, lawyer, fighting the system, society, legal, injustice, rebellion, discrimination, social commentary, women, slavery, children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.2
 790
Complicit (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?
Style: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terrorism, secret agent, government agency, undercover, danger, spy, counter terrorism, terrorist plot, special agent, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, war on terror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.3
 147
Lay It Down (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: The two Destin brothers are about to collide with eternity. When older Ben chooses the narrow road, he forces his younger brother Pete, and the people around him, into a head-on encounter with life and death.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, christian film
Audience: family outing
Plot: street racing, christianity, christian, brother brother relationship, race, faith, family problems, racecar driver, auto racing, life & death, family relations, brothers ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.6
 1K
PVC-1 (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, rough, tense ...
Plot: profanity, terrorism, against the odds, race against time, rescue, danger, bomb, nihilism, found footage, underground, chases and races, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Land of the Blind (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, bleak, political ...
Plot: politics, terrorism, rebelliousness, against the odds, danger, state affairs, haunted by the past, injustice, fighting the system, political corruption, revolution, protest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.7
 233
Created Equal (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman who wishes to become a priest hires a lawyer to file suit against the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: catholic priest, lawsuit, attorney, women's rights, gender issues, faith, religious conflict, sexism, defense attorney, lawyer, discrimination, church ...
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.9
 134K
Syriana (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, cerebral, political, tense ...
Plot: terrorism, cia, corruption, capitalism, espionage, politics, spy, oil, globalization, conspiracy, middle east conflict, political conspiracy ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, usa, israel, iran, lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 6.8
 58K
Rendition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, conspiracy, terrorist, war on terror, kidnapping, cia, islamic terrorism, espionage, torture, islam, spy ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, washington d.c., illinois, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.4
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Samuel Bleak (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
Style: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental institution, small town life, isolation, family problems, small town, mute, suspect, society, danger, mental illness, autism, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Genius Club (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Seven geniuses, with IQs over 200, are plucked from their lives on Christmas Eve to try to solve the world's problems in one night
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot: save the day, psychopath, undercover, danger, prodigy, society, redemption, mastermind, special agent, trapped, chaos, christian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.8
 2K
Mary (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Following the shooting of a film on the life of Jesus called This Is My Blood, Marie Palesi (Juliette Binoche), the actress who plays Mary Magdalene takes refuge in Jerusalem in search of the truth behind the myth. The director of the film, Tony ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
Plot: filmmaking, religion, christian, virgin mary, hopes, self discovery, obsession, society, religions or cults, redemption, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jerusalem, new york, israel, usa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The 9/11 Commission Report (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Independent writer-director Leigh Slawner helms this chilling dramatization of the findings laid out in the best-selling 9/11 Commission Report, a document that sought to analyze the circumstances surrounding coordinated terrorist attacks against ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world trade center manhattan new york city, investigation, uncover truth, chaos, state affairs, danger, politics, society, fbi agent, 9/11, islam, torture ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, london, pakistan, israel, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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438 Days (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story: On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: partner, politics, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, political unrest, wartime, escapades, dictatorship, political intrigue, news report, partners against crime, investigation ...
Place: ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.2
 15K
Talk Radio (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Style: disturbing, talky, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: radio, paranoid, radio dj, murder, death, racism, anonymity, twists and turns, liberal, media, media satire, radio station ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.2
 999
Madtown (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A stand-up comedian confesses to a murder on-stage at an open mic night to a shocked audience - his crime the result of a deadly triangle formed between his older sister, just released from prison after a 20-year stay for the murder of their ...
Style: suspense, bleak, captivating, rough
Plot: murder, surprise party, murder trial, brother sister relationship, birthday, interview, comedy club, stand up comedian, shot in the head, suicide by gunshot, shot in the chest, shot to death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.1
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Captive (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, psychological thriller, serious
Plot: terrorism, kidnapping, danger, captivity, rescue, journalist, hostage, murder, muslim, religion, military, jungle ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.8
 489
Fatwa (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: save the day, political conspiracy, politics, danger, undercover, rivalry, state affairs, terrorism, dishonesty, murder, propaganda, heroes ...
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Seven Days in May (1964)
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, white house, u.s. air force, terrorism, president, secret service, u.s. president, coup d'etat, betrayal, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, future
Place: austin texas, russia, soviet union, america, el paso texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Blood and Money (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A retired veteran hunting in the Allagash backcountry of Maine discovers a dead woman with a duffle bag full of money. He soon finds himself in a web of deceit and murder.
Style: serious, ambiguous ending, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: hunting, winter, wilderness, hunted, manhunt, bandit, danger, chase, burglar, stolen money, twists and turns, gang ...
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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