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Hostages (2013)
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Original name: בני ערובה
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The night before a high profile operation on the PM, the surgeon due to perform the procedure is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly take control of her and her family and order her to kill the PM.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
family relations, political conspiracy, twists and turns, danger, moral dilemma, treason, parents and children, confined, dishonesty, kidnapping, abduction, spy, heist, criminal, israeli, surgeon, home invasion, hostage, doctors and patients, state affairs, power relations, night, family in danger, hostages, crimes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
israel, middle east
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films and TV series with plots about danger, family relations, investigation, dishonesty, hostage, kidnapping and confined mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Hostages: The Bureau (2015), The Gordin Cell (2012), Fauda (2015), Tyrant (2014), The Honourable Woman (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
espionage, spy, undercover agent, terrorism, danger, investigation, national security, secret service, twists and turns, secret identity, mission, characters in danger ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
syria, paris france, middle east, france, israel ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
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A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?
Style:
tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, moral dilemma, betrayal, double agent, parents and children, who to trust, family relations, workplace situations, dishonesty, manipulation, secret agent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, espionage, war on terror, terrorist, mossad, covert operation, israeli, assassination, terror, murder, danger, government agency ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, belgium
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Hostages is an American drama television series that airs on CBS as part of the 2013–14 American television season. The series is based on a similar Israeli series created by Alon Aranya, Omri Givon, and Rotem Shamir which will premiere on October ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tension ...
Plot:
hostage, husband wife relationship, political conspiracy, held captive, blackmail, escape attempt, u.s. president, moral dilemma, family in danger, surgery, confined, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Bassam "Barry" Al Fayeed, the younger son of the dictator of a war-torn nation, ends a self-imposed 20-year exile to return to his ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dictatorship, homecoming, political unrest, totalitarianism, state affairs, ruler, gay son, family relations, parents and children, secret, society, exile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, mistrust, political unrest, powerful corporation, family relations, state affairs, undercover, secret service, cia, who to trust, maid ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, england, israel, jerusalem ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Four masked men break into the Anand family home, taking them hostage. Pushed into a do-or-die situation, Dr. Mira Anand has to make a choice. Will she take a life to save lives?
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, kidnapping, danger, doctors and patients, parents and children, family in danger, hostage situation, political conspiracy, treason, state affairs, hostage, dishonesty ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, UK, Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A Mossad agent embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker in her home town of Tehran.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
mossad, covert operation, computer, terrorist group, danger, israeli, hacker, spy, secret agent, hostage, criminal, computer hacker ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel, tehran iran, iran, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An ambitious financial reporter Bea receives an anonymous tip about irregularities at a Swedish major bank. Bea weathered a scoop, but the review is made more difficult by her love affair with the bank's married CEO, Peder. Based on Carolina ...
Style:
suspenseful, romantic, suspense
Plot:
journalist, banker, bank, extramarital affair, suspicion, secret identity, relationship vs career, couple relations, top secret, double life, secret life, strong female character ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
conspiracy, military, uncover truth, twists and turns, corporate crime, violent content, dishonesty, left to die, political conspiracy, spy, family relations, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary ...
Style:
serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mossad, secret agent, spy, terrorist group, hostage, criminal, abduction, investigation, dishonesty, villain, danger, frame up ...
Place:
israel, middle east, lebanon, iran
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, Norway
Duration: 35 min.
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Story:
When her daughter is abducted, a Norwegian diplomat travels to the Middle East, banking on old friends — and a deep secret — to help free her.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
abduction, isis, terrorist, kidnapping, terrorism, hostage, death threat, blackmail, blackmailer, terrorist group, prisoners exchange, rescue mission ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 64 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Alice, an ambitious 47 year old female film director who becomes obsessed with 24 year old femme-fatale Sophie and eventually surrenders all moral integrity in order to achieve power, success and unlimited relevance.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex scene, female nudity, older woman younger woman relationship, ambitious woman, film industry, lesbian attraction, seductress, femme fatale, female protagonist, manipulative woman, mysterious disappearance, mind game ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
In 13 episodes, the series of fiction "Family Issues" portrays the life of Peter, a family court judge that you will find that there is a very common routine. He has a troubled past - his mother still abandoned child - and still carries ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
legal, uncover truth, injustice, introspection, rivalry, courtroom, courtroom drama, family problems, righting the wronged, haunted by the past, judge, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, life turned upside down, uncover truth, dishonesty, confined, danger, captivity, abduction, ransom, double life, liberation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
Kidnap and Ransom is a British television three-part miniseries, originally shown on ITV in January 2011 with a second series following in February 2012. The series follows the work of a British hostage negotiator Dominic King, played by Trevor Eve, ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
terrorist, rescue, captivity, ransom, confined, danger, kidnapping, hostage, abduction, negotiator, police, terrorist plot ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, confined, danger, rivalry, international relations, violent content, hostage, realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, somalia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Israel
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inspired by the unfortunate event of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin we are proud to bring you the dramatic feature of Haim Bouzaglo, Blank Bullet. Amos Snir, the head of the Shin Bet, has just 60 hours during which time he must prevent the next ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, political thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
criminal psychologist, special agent, society, state affairs, government agency, danger, social decay, law enforcement, assassination, investigation, conspiracy, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
confined, heist, woman in danger, single parent, danger, unlikely criminals, isolation, crime gone awry, parents and children, bank, kidnapping, child in peril ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, life turned upside down, addiction, home invasion, car accident, faked death, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heist, investigation, danger, confined, race against time, on the run, parents and children, friendship, abduction, woman with a gun, wrestling, teen social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The series opens as widow Shimon Sadeh, a successful general contractor, is finishing the year of mourning for his deceased wife. He marries Leah, his daughter's piano teacher. Shimon's eldest son, Ephraim, has become ultra-Orthodox, ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, couple relations, family life, couples, society, religions or cults, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, family business, rabbi, family conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
When a mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago. Harry quickly finds himself ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
legal, lawyer, twists and turns, haunted by the past, lawyers and clients, who to trust, political conspiracy, investigation, uncover truth, murder, politics, conspiracy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
20%
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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:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
A mother suspects that her son could be the killer of a recently found dead girl, and becomes caught in a torturous dilemma of whether to denounce him, or protect him and hide the act.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, parents and children, family problems, who done it, small town, family relations, social relations, moral dilemma, suspicion, suspicion of murder, danger, mother and son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Exile is a British psychological thriller television series dealing with the topic of Alzheimer's disease against a background of corruption. It stars John Simm and Jim Broadbent and was broadcast on BBC One. The series received varyingly ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
parents and children, mental illness, homecoming, haunted by the past, family relations, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, mental health, investigation, murder mystery, dementia, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
The Code is a drama series which tells tells the story of two brothers who discover some information that those at the highest levels of political power are determined to keep secret.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, detective ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, uncover truth, conspiracy, state affairs, dishonesty, political conspiracy, investigation, investigative reporter, political unrest, threat, political intrigue, hidden truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
TV show
Story:
Three generations of Dallas police officers join together to track down the deadliest serial killer ever to terrorize Texas.
Style:
detective, serious, realistic, psychological, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, nypd, murder, kidnapping, hostage, danger, law enforcement, confined, crime gone awry, chases and races, police investigation, riddles and clues ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
texas
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Ex Manchester gangland boss Michael O'Connor, who is now happily settled in rural Ireland, is forced to go back to Manchester when his son Sean is found guilty of the murder of a gang member.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
mafia, uncover truth, haunted by the past, murder, dishonesty, gangster, parents and children, confined, righting the wronged, criminal heroes, danger, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, chemistry, kidnapping, on the run, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, drug abuse, violent content, farm, confined, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
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