Movies like Fishing Without Nets

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Fishing Without Nets (2014)
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Fishing Without Nets (2014)
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 While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values.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 pirates hit the high seas and capture a French oil tanker, demanding a hefty ransom. During the long, tedious wait for the cash to arrive, Abdi forges a tentative friendship with one of the hostages. When some of the pirates resort to violence, Abdi must make dramatic choices to determine his course.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, suspenseful
Plot: pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, danger, confined, escape, rivalry, international relations, hostage, realism, power relations, violent content, mission, graphic violence, hostages, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: africa, somalia

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Most similar movies to Fishing Without Nets

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about danger, confined, deadly, hostage, rivalry, kidnapping and murder mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Fishing Without Nets: Hostages (2013), Default (2014), Fatal Secrets (2009), A Hijacking (2012), Resilience (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hostages (2013)
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, serious, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot: hostage, political conspiracy, husband wife relationship, blackmail, moral dilemma, family in danger, u.s. president, escape attempt, surgery, doctors and patients, confined, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Default (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A news crew is taken hostage on an airplane set to take off from the Seychelles.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pirate, confined, found footage, journalism, media, rivalry, terrorist, danger, interview, confined space, journalist, reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: somalia
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44%
 3.9
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Fatal Secrets (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: "BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: danger, dishonesty, rivalry, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.1
 17K
A Hijacking (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: pirate, negotiation, secrets, terrorism, hijacking, manipulation, ransom, character study, sailor, moral dilemma, captivity, danger ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: denmark, somalia, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Resilience (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, sexual content, violent content, nudity, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Enemies Among Us (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: assassination, campaign, danger, politics, political corruption, haunted by the past, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, profanity, state affairs, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
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34%
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
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34%
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The Crew (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Still depressed over the suicide of his mother, Bill has no idea that he's in for a wild ride when he and his wife Jennifer board the yacht owned by her bigoted lawyer brother. Along for the trip: a rock musician and his wife, as well as the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: rescue, hostage, survival, captivity, isolation, forces of nature, danger, confined, husband wife relationship, cruise, lgbtq, social relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: bahamas
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32%
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The Good Neighbour (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Good Neighbour is a 2011 German film directed by Stephan Rick. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival and was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, journalism, neighbor, manslaughter, hidden truth, power relations, danger, psycho, friendship between men, journalist, car accident, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Through the Air (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problems. One day at the shooting range he meets the mysterious Renaud who promises him a solution to his ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: contract killing, parents and children, moral dilemma, conspiracy, couples, danger, family problems, family in crisis, contract killer, pig, debt, boat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 3.0
 159
Good Chemistry (2008)
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, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 667
Blame (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: vengeance, assassination attempt, haunted by the past, injustice, rivalry, danger, vigilante, revenge, teacher student relationship, suicide, postman, isolated house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.3
 8K
Five Fingers (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, kidnapping, torture, chess, idealism, confined, danger, rivalry, missing person, twists and turns, threat ...
Place: africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.3
 710
Black November (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious
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Time: 21st century
Place: nigeria, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Blood and Ties (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia
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27%
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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
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
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Unrequited (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: UNREQUITED is a psychological thriller and tells the story of Ben Jacobs, a troubled young man who, on his 18th birthday, has to leave the group home for "troubled teens" where he has been living for the past several months and move back ...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: love and romance, unrequited love, kidnapping, unfulfilled love, teenage love, danger, adaptation, abduction, teenager, loner, youth, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Tracks of a Killer (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snow, psycho, psychopath, rescue, chases and races, danger, rivalry, confined, uninhibited rivalry, captivity, kidnapping, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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My Gal Sunday (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It was love at first sight for beautiful young lawyer Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien-Parker (Rachel Blanchard) and Henry Parker (Cameron Mathison), retiring White House Secretary of State, when Sunday's dad Danny (Jack Wagner), ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: investigation, rescue, fighting crime, danger, uncover truth, rivalry, hitman, couple relations, race against time, murder, confined, blackmail ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Held for Ransom (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: captivity, ransom, danger, confined, survival, rivalry, psychopath, teenage life, wilderness, murderous pair, chases and races, hijacking ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, florida
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25%
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Hostages (2013)
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, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: family relations, political conspiracy, treason, twists and turns, moral dilemma, danger, parents and children, dishonesty, confined, kidnapping, abduction, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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25%
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Abandoned (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: female protagonist, hospital, danger, race against time, confined, rivalry, uncover truth, investigation, intrigue, doctors and patients, abduction, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Roulette (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: russian roulette, suicide, mind game, life is a bitch, destiny, down on your luck, game of death, danger, woman in danger, group, deadly, unreliable narrator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 317
Murder Live! (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Frank takes Pia Postman hostage on live TV, threatening to execute her after she accepts the blame for his daughter's suicide.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: swat team, nypd, hostage, hostage situation, confined, media, chases and races, danger, swat, haunted by the past, showbiz, hostage negotiator ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Darkness Falls (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ...
Style: realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: captivity, hostage, family problems, couples, confined, vengeance, haunted by the past, estate, danger, dishonesty, unhappy wife, unhappy marriage ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.8
 406
Cold Storage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, missing person, mentally unstable, confined, danger, isolation, hostage, woods, car accident, graphic violence, corpse, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Mortician (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: mortician, murder, haunted by the past, redemption, danger, emotionless, social decay, corpse, black, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.1
 117
The Cursed (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot: escaped mental patient, hostage, unlikely criminals, danger, escapades, daring rescue, confined, chases and races, forces of nature, psychopath, married couple, negotiation ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.7
 5K
Supremacy (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: hostage, family in danger, danger, society, murder, family relations, confined, kidnapped, home invasion, husband wife relationship, african american, aryan brotherhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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