Movies like The Blind Spot 2013

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The Blind Spot (2013)
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The Blind Spot (2013)
Original name: Der blinde Fleck
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The true story of a journalist who investigates the backgrounds of the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980.
Plot: german history, neo nazi, investigative reporter, german politics, journalist, conspiracy, investigative journalism, government conspiracy, unsolved crime, husband wife relationship, witness, terrorist attack, domestic terrorism, bombing, government coverup, whistleblower, severed arm
Time: year 1980, year 2011, year 1983, year 2006
Place: munich germany, bavaria, west germany, southern germany

Most similar movies to The Blind Spot

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspenseful, tense and realistic films with plots about politics, conspiracy, journalist, investigation, intrigue, investigative journalism and german history mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres. Some movies like The Blind Spot: Fatal News (2015), Wackersdorf (2018), The Tunnel (2001), The Lies of the Victors (2014), All the President's Men (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fatal News (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 177 min.
Story: The Barschel case is one of the most important political scandals in recent German history. Not least because it has remained unsolved. Countless speculations and conspiracy theories have grown up to the present day to the dramatic death of the ...
Style: feel good, disturbing, psychological, suspense, erotic
Plot: german politics, mysterious death, investigative journalism, crooked politician, conspiracy, political intrigue, political scandal, private investigator, investigative reporter, corrupt politician, female reporter, marital problem ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1987
Place: west germany, berlin germany, zurich switzerland, geneva switzerland, hamburg germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.9
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Wackersdorf (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Not an easy decision! District Administrator Hans Schuierer from the Upper Palatinate first opposed his own political line in 1981 and finally against the entire Bavarian Free State and Prime Minister Strauss. Because the planned reprocessing plant ...
Audience: date night
Plot: political protest, police brutality, german politics, disagreement, forest, protestor, german history, conflict between friends, nuclear, family relations, protest sign, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: germany, west germany, southern germany, bavaria, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.7
 6K
The Tunnel (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, political, compassionate ...
Plot: berlin wall, tunnel, politics, communism, betrayal, cold war, breast feeding, political unrest, wartime, freedom, brutality, heroes ...
Time: 60s, ancient times, year 2001
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Lies of the Victors (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Fabian Groys, a renowned journalist for a political news magazine, enjoys great freedom, since the stories he uncovers make for good sales. When he loses a hot story about the German army, the editor saddles him with a young female intern. Fabian ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense
Plot: journalist, investigative journalism, political unrest, politics, private investigation, political intrigue, investigative reporter, secret, crime solving, intrigue, investigation, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
All the President's Men (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of ...
Style: political thriller, political, cerebral, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: journalism, newspaper, investigation, politics, political conspiracy, conspiracy, political corruption, journalist, president, american politics, white house, political intrigue ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976, year 1972, year 1973
Place: washington d.c., usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.5
 13K
Balloon (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape DDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense
Audience: date night
Plot: berlin wall, stasi, balloon, border patrol, escape plan, manhunt, iron curtain, husband wife relationship, cold war, biopic, couples, danger ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 70s, year 1979
Place: east germany, german democratic republic, berlin germany, east berlin, west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Whistle Blower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Lee Jang-hwan receives widespread acclaim and media attention after successfully cloning human embryo stem cells. A TV news program PD, Yoon Min-cheol, receives a phone call from an anonymous source who says he has worked with Dr. Lee on the stem ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, political thriller
Plot: investigative reporter, infertility, medicine, conspiracy, scientist, moral dilemma, physician, investigative journalism, fertility clinic, government conspiracy, doctor, private investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.6
 183
Friends (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Plot: gay, drug, betrayal, police
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Final Assignment (1980)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An intrepid television journalist (Genevieve Bujold) sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: german history, espionage, reporter, assignment, children, experiment, journalism, steroids, cold war, escape, prime minister, suit and tie ...
Time: year 1980
Place: soviet union, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Pentagon Papers (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: whistleblower, politics, uncover truth, dishonesty, fighting the system, military, soldier, state affairs, head of state, introspection, political conspiracy, political corruption ...
Place: usa, asia, vietnam, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 3K
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 ⇓
33%
The Odessa File (1974)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually ...
Style: political thriller, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: espionage, investigation, nazi, spy, world war two, war criminal, conspiracy, holocaust, journalism, mossad, war crime, neo nazi ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, post world war two, year 1963
Place: germany, hamburg germany, israel, west germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
World Trade Center (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the ...
Style: realistic, factual, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: terrorism, disaster, firefighter, 9/11, twin towers, survival, terrorist, war on terror, natural disaster, heroes, courage, al qaeda ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2006, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, middle east, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 903
Burn Country (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A former war journalist now writing for a paper in Northern California is drawn into conflict at home.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: journalist, corruption, investigation, crime investigation, investigative journalism, sleuth, investigative reporter, government corruption, small town, war in afghanistan
Place: afghanistan, northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, dramatic ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, politics, nazi germany, spy, emergency, political conspiracy, conspiracy, political unrest, government conspiracy, political intrigue, interwar period ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938, 20th century
Place: germany, munich germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have been robbed and need a place to ...
Style: masterpiece
Plot: hedonism, corporal punishment, folk horror, female protagonist, heresy, erection, horse, foreplay, constable, female nudity, husband wife relationship, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 17th century
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Valkyrie (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style: factual, bad ending, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, nazi, nazism, war, nazi germany, hitler, conspiracy, resistance, german soldier, politics, wehrmacht, espionage ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, year 1944, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, bavaria, tunisia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.8
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The Gustloff (2008)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: ship, world war two, torpedo, escapades, wartime life, downfall, ocean, evacuation, military, confined, danger, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The ...
Style: political, bleak, realistic, intellectual, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, anti war, revolution, protest, revolutionary, journalist, prison, politics, idealism, capitalism, assassination, terrorist attack ...
Time: 70s, year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1967 ...
Place: germany, somalia, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Rabin, the Last Day (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Itzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, political
Plot: assassination, politics, soldier, hate, crime investigation, secret service, political rally, prime minister, patriotism, assassin, bodyguard, political manipulation ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Whistle Blower (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
Style: political thriller, political, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, whistleblower, murder, paranoia, spy thriller, intrigue, law enforcement, 007, iron curtain, politics ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Labyrinth of Lies (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Plot: holocaust, lawyer, nazi, investigation, prosecutor, world war two, idealism, fighting the system, nazi war criminal, post war germany, ex nazi, genocide ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 2014, year 1963 ...
Place: germany, frankfurt germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Shattered Glass (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fact-based 2003 drama about the young journalist Stephen Glass, who got a job at The New Republic in 1995 and for three years fabricated at least half of the stories he wrote.
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: journalism, writers, workplace, ethics, journalist, media, ambition, suspicion, research, workaholic, career, character study ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., haiti, palo alto california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Last Hour (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Chile, Peru
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Lima, Peru, 1991. After years of fruitless efforts, a group of police officers finally find a lead on the whereabouts of Abimael Guzmán, the bloodthirsty leader of the communist terrorist gang Shining Path.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, detective
Plot: terrorism, investigation, forensics, police detective, war on terror, detective inspector, counter terrorism, terrorist attack, police investigation, brother sister relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, police corruption ...
Time: 90s
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Die Akte General (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Its 1959. German Public Prosecutor Bauer is convinced he has found the long sought Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. This tense drama shows his struggle to have him brought to justice against the power jielded by old Nazi functionaries in ...
Plot: mossad, nazi, world war two, auschwitz, post war, german history, shoah, post war germany, male nudity, holocaust, judiciary
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.3
 5K
King's Game (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Starting a new job as a political journalist at a leading newspaper, Ulrik Torp witnesses a brutal struggle for power in the Midparty's ranks -- a struggle that coincides with the charismatic party leader's involvement in a near fatal car ...
Style: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: politics, journalist, politician, parliament, campaign, dishonesty, state affairs, political scandal, journalism, trust, investigative journalism, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Zweimal zweites Leben (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A husband has to cope with his wife being comatose after an accident.
Style: psychological, touching, humorous, unusual plot structure, captivating
Plot: husband wife relationship, coping, fall in love, love triangle, accident, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, motorcycle, restaurant owner, ambulance, horse, hospital ...
Place: munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot: cold war, spy, cia, espionage, double agent, corruption, politics, betrayal, conspiracy, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 60s, year 1958 ...
Place: cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Ghayal Once Again (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Ajay Mehra (from previous Ghayal-1990), after finishing off his life sentence, starts a newspaper called Satyakam. Still dealing with the haunting trauma of losing his loved ones, Ajay manages to make a credible name for himself in investigative ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating
Plot: journalist, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, murderer, political corruption, evil plot, conspiracy, political conspiracy, assassination plot, political unrest, killings, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.1
 3K
Kavan (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A budding journalist passionate about ethical, noble, hard-hitting journalism understands the more flourishing ghetto of sensationalism & news fabrication that the Entertainment TV Channel he belongs to, thrives on. When caught in a dilemma ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: reporter, journalism, fight, journalist, investigative reporter, problem, government corruption, corrupt official, investigative journalism, media, tamil, guilty pleasure ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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