Movies like Spider in the Web

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Spider in the Web (2019)
 4.5
 2K
Spider in the Web (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Israel, Belgium, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.
Style: atmospheric, suspense, bleak
Plot: mossad, spy, espionage, black ops, investigation, politics, lie, social problems, danger, nothing goes right, tailing a suspect, ex law enforcer, weapons, crime, social problem, crimes
Place: syria, israel

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and realistic films with plots about danger, spy, politics, investigation, state affairs, murder and espionage mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Spider in the Web: The Angel (2018), Shattered (2017), False Flag (2015), Wolf (2004), Jack Strong (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Angel (2018)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, UK, Egypt
Duration: 114 min.
Story: True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT ...
Style: clever, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mossad, spy, politics, espionage, investigator, undercover agent, president, mysterious character, war, historical event, danger, army ...
Time: 70s
Place: israel, egypt, palestine, paris france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 602
Shattered (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shattered is a story based on true events about family betrayal, love lost, and a dark destructive secret that swirls around a high powered political family in the Deep South. Kate Stenson dreams of an enviable life as the quintessential Southern ...
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: family problems, life is a bitch, disturbed individual, secret past, investigation, male female relationship, family relations, dark past, dysfunctional family, mental illness, family secret, eccentric family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.7
 2K
False Flag (2015)
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, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: mossad, secret agent, spy, hostage, terrorist group, abduction, criminal, investigation, dishonesty, danger, frame up, villain ...
Place: israel, middle east, lebanon, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the ...
Style: bleak, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: mental institution, mistreatment, female reporter, investigative reporter, torture, abuse, journalist, fish out of water, violence, investigative journalism, psychiatrist, strong female lead ...
Time: victorian era, 1880s, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 6.9
 4K
Wolf (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, spy, double agent, infiltration, life turned upside down, fish out of water, on the run, espionage, undercover, dishonesty, betrayal, chase ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.0
 5K
Jack Strong (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A spy thriller telling a historically based story of a man who alone dares to challenge Soviets being in the middle of the communistic system himself. Planning the maneuvers of Warsaw Pact forces he discovers that the American plans of nuclear ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: spy, martial law, state affairs, politics, undercover, government agency, political unrest, dishonesty, iron curtain, cold war, chase, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s, 60s
Place: poland, europe, soviet union, warsaw poland, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.8
 10K
The Assignment (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jack Shaw (DONALD SUTHERLAND) has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, terrorism, chase, hitman, espionage, revenge, terrorist, frame up, danger, race against time, politics, secrets ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 70s, 20th century
Place: israel, virginia, middle east, vienna, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: law enforcement, riddles and clues, murder, investigation, partner, danger, religions or cults, society, kidnapping, mafia, interpol, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The 9/11 Commission Report (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Independent writer-director Leigh Slawner helms this chilling dramatization of the findings laid out in the best-selling 9/11 Commission Report, a document that sought to analyze the circumstances surrounding coordinated terrorist attacks against ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world trade center manhattan new york city, investigation, uncover truth, chaos, state affairs, danger, politics, society, fbi agent, 9/11, islam, torture ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, london, pakistan, israel, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on Martin McGartland's real life story as a informant for the British Police to spy on the IRA. Taking place from 1987-1991, Martin (Jim Sturgess) works his way up the ranks of the IRA, while keeping his informant with the police Fergis ...
Style: factual, captivating, stylized, tense, political ...
Plot: ira, crime gone awry, storytelling, terrorism, brutality, secret agent, snitch, danger, undercover, state affairs, spy, trouble ...
Time: 80s, year 2008, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, canada, northern ireland, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Northern Paradigm (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Political thriller about an Iraq war veteran seeking the truth about his brother's death.
Style: thrilling, captivating, political thriller, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, political intrigue, murder investigation, political unrest, life is a bitch, politics, iraq war veteran, social problems, iraq veteran, war veteran, social issues, robbery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Damascus Cover (2017)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: spy, mission, arab israeli conflict, adaptation, danger, lone hero, justice, murder, life is a bitch, sex, gunfight, female nudity ...
Time: year 1989
Place: syria, middle east, west germany, israel, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
A Mother's Instinct (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a woman’s son goes missing and the prime suspect is released due to lack of evidence, she and her teenage daughter decide to play vigilante.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing son, cyberbullying, missing child, boy, parent child relationship, high school student, uncover truth, crime investigation, law enforcement, family relations, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.3
 1K
Experiment (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman, Anna, walks the streets of a foreign city. Her mind full of pain. No memory of who she is. and plagued by nightmarish visions. Then she meets Morgan, a man who also has no memory. Forced to trust each other, the two feel a mysterious ...
Style: psychological, bleak, mind bending, tense, suspense ...
Plot: memory loss, danger, a vision, experiment, uncover truth, investigation, losing-it hero, twists and turns, trust, mysterious man, supernatural, gory ...
Place: england, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.3
 2K
The Patriots (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Ariel, un jeune Juif français, décide de quitter sa famille pour partir en Israël et devenir un agent du Mossad, les services secrets israéliens. En participant à des missions à Paris, Tel Aviv et Washington, il sera initié à l'art ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, mossad, espionage, wartime, paranoid, terrorism, hitman, secret agent, intrigue, government agency, dishonesty, politics ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france, israel, europe, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
American Roulette (1988)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, violent content, nudity, on the run, politics, assassination attempt, danger, heroes, dishonesty, rebellion, espionage, head of state ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grizzly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, cynical, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: politics, conspiracy, corruption, dishonesty, manipulation, political intrigue, political conspiracy, diplomat, society, coworker, political unrest, relationship problems ...
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Secrets of State (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense ...
Plot: counter terrorism, terrorist, espionage, politics, terrorism, spy, secret agent, political conspiracy, state affairs, race against time, good versus evil, prison rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, cold war, politics, spy, conspiracy, kgb, chase, betrayal, nuclear bomb, race against time, secret agent, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Sword of Gideon (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Style: action thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: mossad, terrorism, spy, conflict, revenge, olympics, arab israeli conflict, workplace situations, murder, confined, vengeance, assassination ...
Time: 80s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.3
 1K
Colosio (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. ...
Style: tense, captivating, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: conspiracy, political intrigue, politics, political candidate, secret, assassination, political conspiracy, special agent, crime investigation, puzzle, government agent, government conspiracy ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.4
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Shadow of Fear (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a new boy is employed to work in a coffee shop, he turns out to be a schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication, and makes the life of the popular young waitress who works there a misery.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: stalking, obsession, mental illness, danger, woman in danger, hunted, life turned upside down, psychopath, stalker, threat, possessed human, mentally unstable ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.6
 108
Uppdraget (1977)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Common political thriller. Swedish representative is sent to an imaginary country in South America where a revolution is erupting. His assignment: to organize and mediate a conference between the government and the revolutionaries. Reading it ...
Plot: brutality, spy, police, politics, mass murder, diplomat, army, assassination, mission, espionage, oppression, gun
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Lethal Eviction (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A first time landlord purchases a run-down, rent-controlled apartment building in hopes of making a solid investment. Everything seems to be going smoothly until, one by one, the tenants begin to meet strange, untimely gruesome deaths.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, creepy ...
Plot: landlord, murder, investigation, dual identity, law enforcement, danger, insanity, twins, apartment building, pursuit, home invasion, old dark house ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Salamander (1981)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: murder, political conspiracy, politics, police investigation, political intrigue, danger, political corruption, society, dishonesty, state affairs, police officer, torture ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Septembers of Shiraz (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, period piece ...
Plot: political prisoner, revolution, danger, society, party, couples, family relations, friendship, rivalry, fleeing, judaism, jewish family ...
Time: year 1979
Place: tehran iran, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Dark Reflection (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, realistic
Plot: uncover truth, journalism, investigation, moral dilemma, society, dishonesty, political conspiracy, feminist, conspiracy, media, journalist
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Man Standing Next (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending
Plot: assassination of president, politics, assassination, tragedy, betrayal, dictatorship, state terrorism, spy, espionage, intelligence agency, hearing, military dictatorship ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: south korea, seoul, washington d.c., paris france, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 2.7
 491
Killer App (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young hacker creates an "antisocial" networking app that matches enemies instead of friends. When her enemies start turning up dead, she must uncover who or what is behind it before it's too late
Style: suspenseful, suspense, bleak, harsh, tense ...
Plot: hacker, programmer, investigation, uncover truth, female protagonist, murder, woman, social relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Formosa Betrayed (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, clever, realistic ...
Plot: political unrest, police detective, investigation, uncover truth, society, rebellion, politics, fighting the system, law enforcement, who to trust, state affairs, fight for supremacy ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: taiwan, chicago, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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