Movies like The East 2013

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The East (2013)
 6.8
 52K
The East (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, political, intense, serious, psychological, exciting, cerebral, independent film, indie film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terrorism, fighting the system, environmentalism, spy, anarchist, espionage, fbi, environmental issue, revenge, anti capitalism, radical, undercover, twists and turns, rebellion, danger, social activist, poisoning, secret organization, ecological disaster, society, rebelliousness, fighting illness, corporate world, toxic waste, terrorist group ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, washington d.c.
Keyword: feminist film, youtube, challenge

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Most similar movies to The East

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about spy, murder, conspiracy, death, investigation, danger and politics mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The East: Sound of My Voice (2011), The Company You Keep (2012), Sleeper Cell (2005), The Double (2011), The Pelican Brief (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sound of My Voice (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Style: thought provoking, surreal, tense, cerebral, suspenseful ...
Plot: manipulation, cult leader, sect, religions or cults, brainwashing, amnesia, investigation, journalist, twists and turns, time travel, uncover truth, exploitation ...
Time: year 2011, distant future, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Company You Keep (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Style: suspense, sexy, captivating, light, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: newspaper, journalism, fbi, journalist, reporter, terrorism, robbery, chase, hidden identity, twists and turns, conspiracy, runaway ...
Time: 70s, year 2012, year 1971, year 1979, year 1972 ...
Place: usa, new york, michigan, canada, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 7K
Sleeper Cell (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an African-American Muslim who joins an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States while working undercover for the FBI.
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: terrorist, undercover agent, spy, undercover, fbi, heroes, race against time, danger, special agent, terrorist plot, pretense, chases and races ...
Place: los angeles, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 31K
The Double (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: assassination, spy, espionage, double agent, investigation, cia, plot twist, twists and turns, surveillance, special agent, hunt down, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., paris france, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style: tense, political thriller, political, suspense, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: political conspiracy, state affairs, investigation, politics, conspiracy, reporter, lawyer, courtroom, corruption, conspiracy theory, political corruption, murder ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: new orleans, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Edge of Darkness (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to ...
Style: brutal, tense, suspenseful, exciting, detective ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: vengeance, father daughter relationship, murder, investigation, corruption, uncover truth, fighting the system, riddles and clues, conspiracy, political corruption, violence, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.8
 9K
Black Sunday (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.
Style: political thriller, suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, american football, politics, disaster, revenge, cheerleader, spy, chase, terrorist, violence, airplane, espionage ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: florida, miami, usa, mojave desert, miami beach ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The International (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, ...
Style: clever, exciting, suspenseful, sexy, enigmatic ...
Plot: conspiracy, interpol, murder, investigation, assassin, conspiracy theory, chase, hitman, lawyer, revenge, gunfight, police investigation ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, milan italy, berlin germany, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The November Man (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: cia, secret service, spy, espionage, conspiracy, hostage, brutality, secret agent, female agent, surveillance, assassin, violence ...
Time: year 2008, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: montenegro, belgrade serbia, switzerland, usa, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style: serious, political thriller, captivating, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: writers, twists and turns, politics, political conspiracy, investigation, betrayal, writer's life, spy, espionage, cia, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new england, new york, massachusetts, britain, oxford university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 111K
The Interpreter (2005)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, South Africa
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, mind bending, political, tense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: assassination, un, spy, investigation, murder, espionage, fbi, twists and turns, secret service, vengeance, chase, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, new york, brooklyn new york city, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.9
 59K
Traitor (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, terrorism, islam, religion, conspiracy, faith, bomb, twists and turns, cia, propaganda, traitor, spy ...
Time: year 2008, year 1978, 21st century
Place: chicago, sudan, los angeles, nice france, toronto ontario canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.7
 73K
The Client (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is ...
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, mafia, boy, witnessing a crime, lawyers and clients, conspiracy, investigation, witness protection, courtroom, court, courtroom drama, legal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, tennessee, memphis, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: journalism, cia, courtroom drama, reporter, lawyer, investigation, media, courtroom, corruption, murder, espionage, spy ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 33K
Spartan (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, rough, political thriller ...
Plot: secret service, kidnapping, investigation, missing person, spy, politics, conspiracy, espionage, female agent, political conspiracy, secret agent, rescue ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, london, harvard university, dubai
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.1
 45K
No Way Out (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: twists and turns, conspiracy, murder, espionage, cold war, investigation, love triangle, political corruption, sex scene, spy, plot twist, secretary of defense ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., pentagon, manila philippines, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.2
 92K
Arlington Road (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: terrorism, conspiracy, twists and turns, murder, evil wins, professor, terrorist, paranoia, uncover truth, fbi, plot twist, danger ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia, kansas, west virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.7
 470K
Sicario (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cia, hitman, drug cartel, revenge, swat team, fbi, black ops, fbi agent, drug smuggling, crime boss, organized crime, cia agent ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, el paso texas, tucson arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 8.1
 800K
Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Style: clever, bleak, tense, political, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, surveillance, immigrant, war on terror, islam, secret service, investigation, betrayal, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, hamburg germany, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.1
 197K
Side Effects (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, clever ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, psychiatrist, depression, murder, patient, sleepwalking, deception, twists and turns, mental institution, life turned upside down, psychiatry, doctor ...
Time: year 2013, future, 2010s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Canada, Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cyber-criminals and corrupt government officials - both in Sweden and in the United States - whom are only known as The Spider Society.
Style: suspense, captivating, intense, realistic, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: programmer, computer hacker, hacker, journalist, computer cracker, father daughter relationship, terrorist, hitman, rogue agent, chess, spy, blackmail ...
Time: 2010s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
 51K
Bastille Day (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much ...
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: pickpocket, terrorism, cia, thief, rogue agent, bomb, strong female character, espionage, brutality, investigation, conspiracy, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2016
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 6.2
 23K
Closed Circuit (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A terrorist attack in London results in the capture of suspect Farroukh Erdogan (Denis Moschitto). The attorney general appoints Claudia Simmons-Howe (Rebecca Hall) as special advocate on Erdogan's legal team. On the eve of the trial, ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, political, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, conspiracy, cia, spy, legal action, lawyer, murder, surveillance, politics, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.1
 43K
Narc (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 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 ⇓
25%
 7.1
 160K
State of Play (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's ...
Style: clever, political thriller, political, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, political conspiracy, journalism, politics, corruption, journalist, investigation, reporter, murder, congress, politician, spy ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Style: suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, spy, conspiracy, sniper, politics, assassination, shootout, drug cartel, violence, espionage, covert operation, mercenary ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, washington d.c., usa, langley virginia, iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.1
 17K
Night Moves (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, meditative, intense ...
Plot: environmental issue, terrorism, dam, rebellion, crime gone awry, character study, environmentalism, radical, bomb, gang, society, danger ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Devil's Own (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, political ...
Plot: terrorism, murder, politics, terrorist, friendship, police investigation, betrayal, tragic event, violence, revenge, assassin, chase ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, year 1972
Place: ireland, northern ireland, new york, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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