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Maximum Impact (2017)
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Original name: Максимальный удар
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The agents of the Federal Security Service of Russia and the US Secret Service are forced to work together to prevent a full-scale international crisis.
Style:
political thriller, suspense, suspenseful, action packed, dutch angle
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cia, terrorism, assassination, national security, money, abduction, smuggling, secret, grandfather granddaughter relationship, surveillance, secretary of state, spy, espionage, kidnapping, international relations, international crisis, agent, hostage, secret service, conspiracy, diplomacy, covert operation, rescue mission, collaboration, military ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, usa, washington d.c., united states
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, tense and political thriller films with plots about espionage, conspiracy, terrorism, spy, betrayal, agent and covert operation mostly in Action, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Maximum Impact: Stranglehold (1994), The Berlin Conspiracy (1992), Fox Hunt (1996), April Rain (2014), Espionage Tonight (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Duration: 80 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Movie cut together from the videogame by the same name, only released in europe
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suspense, tension, action thriller, suspenseful, heroic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
Style:
tense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, danger, secret agent, government agency, spy, murder, infiltration, domestic terrorism, investigation, national security, special forces ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a reality TV show created by the U.S. government about spies, audiences go on fake undercover missions, but fact cannot be easily distinguished from fiction.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting, disturbing, mockumentary ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, undercover, deception, media manipulation, secret mission, spy mission, mission, assignment, fictional reality show, fight, battles ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an ex-CIA agent discovers his family have been kidnapped he sets out to rescue them, only to discover they are being held hostage and won't be released unless he carries out a mission to assassinate the President. He must use his advanced ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
assassination of president, conspiracy, spy, espionage, family in danger, hostage, kidnapping, assassination, frame up, special agent, scapegoat, assassination plot ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jack Gracy, a former security guard at the American Embassy in Russia, has shown up uninvited to a party at the embassy in the former Soviet Republic of Bazrhikistan, where his estranged girlfriend is working. As the two are talking upstairs, a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, action packed, fast paced, political thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
embassy, terrorism, die hard, hostage, nuclear threat, rescue, rescue mission, international crisis, military, espionage, redemption, unlikely hero ...
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71%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government. For years, he has kept his job from his wife, but is forced to reveal his identity and try to stop nuclear terrorists when he and his wife are kidnapped by them.
Style:
action comedy, humorous, semi serious, funny, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
spy, secret service, espionage, secret agent, undercover, agent, surveillance, one man army, tango, love and romance, terrorism, spy spoof ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, miami, rhode island, maryland, key west florida ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
JJ, a veteran CIA agent, reunites with his protégé Sophie, in order to prevent a catastrophic nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.
Style:
feel good, action comedy, humorous, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
terrorism, spy, spy thriller, villainess, high school, male female friendship, adult child friendship, terrorist plot, vatican, espionage, nuclear threat, cia ...
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.
Style:
action comedy, humorous, intense, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
espionage, spy, terrorism, partner, culture clash, hidden camera, cia, secret service, twin brother, betrayal, lone hero, fish out of water ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, langley virginia, new york, europe, los angeles ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two days after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, a young careerist is abducted by an at-large intelligence operative carrying a mysterious briefcase, while being hotly pursued by a driven agency director and her dull-witted team.
Style:
tense, satirical, captivating, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political intrigue, abduction, satire, political satire, spy thriller, espionage, intelligence agency, kidnapping, reconnaissance, special agent, political campaign, prospector ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
america
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four canisters of deadly VX nerve gas have fallen into the hands of an international arms dealer in Myanmar. A CIA recruit delivers a high-tech detection device to an agent already on the ground.
Style:
action thriller, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
martial arts, undercover agent, covert operation, spy thriller, espionage, cia, agent, undercover police officer, battles, swashbuckler, working undercover, arms dealer ...
Place:
southeast asia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An attack on the new President of a fledgling Eastern European democracy pits an American covert operative against the country’s ruthless military leader determined to seize control of the government.
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
tough guy, military, government, president, machismo, martial arts, cia, violence, gunfight, power struggle, conspiracy, political corruption ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, political thriller, intense, action packed ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
action thriller, suspenseful, thrilling
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When the identities of secret agents from Control are compromised, the Chief promotes hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart and teams him with stylish, capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
intense, thrilling, captivating, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
washington d.c., poland
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
london, england, eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Debra Burton plays an evil genius trying to put economic rains on the world. Martin Potter and David Gullium are two spies are on a mission to save the world.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an international terrorist cult threatens global political stability and kidnaps a fellow agent, Ace Sniper Brandon Beckett and the newly-formed Global Response & Intelligence Team – or G.R.I.T. – led by Colonel Stone must travel across ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, fast paced, heroic, political
Plot:
military, rescue mission, sniper, special ops, combat, espionage, agent, ruse, rescue, gunfight, infiltration, teamwork ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
malta
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This James Bond spoof sees Billy Dee Williams playing an international agent who quits his job to open a detective agency in the 'hood'.
Style:
detective, hood, spoof, independent film, parody
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, action comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
pentagon, cuba
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, suspense, cult classic, grim ...
Plot:
terrorism, commando, cia, military, espionage, revenge, friendship, explosions, violent, rescue mission, sacrifice, loyalty ...
Place:
angola
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A massive explosion rips though a busy street in Istanbul, Turkey. 95 people are dead; 30 Americans and 5 British. The massacre sends shock waves from Turkey to London and Washington, DC. A new terrorist organization is behind the attack. The ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, political thriller, dark, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jihad, terrorism, terrorist, islam, turk, intelligence, investigation, espionage, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, betrayal, geopolitics ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, washington d.c., london, turkey
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33%
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