Movies and TV shows like La unidad

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La unidad (2020)
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La unidad (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
Style: political, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, heroic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, entertaining
Plot: terrorist, police, terrorism, revenge, investigation, murder, retribution, team, danger, government, international crisis, police operation, swat team, counter terrorism, war on terror, terrorist attack, heroes, military, violence, female agent, chase, vengeance, mission, society, fighting crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid
Keyword: attack

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense and captivating films and TV series with plots about danger, investigation, murder, terrorist, police, terrorism and chase mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like La unidad: Trigger Point (2022), Caliphate (2020), Bodyguard (2018), Blackout (2020), The Enemy Within (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Trigger Point (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: bomb squad, counter terrorism, war on terror, terrorist attack, terrorist, bomb, police, terrorism, women, race against time, life risking, female protagonist ...
Time: 2020s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Caliphate (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistent who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, tense, slasher ...
Plot: isis, terrorist, hijab, islamic terrorism, suicide bomber, islam, terrorism, police, conspiracy, female protagonist, intelligence agency, muslim ...
Place: syria, middle east, eastern europe
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Bodyguard (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
Style: political, detective, exciting, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: bodyguard, terrorism, security, terrorist, husband wife relationship, stalking, politician, spy, politics, die hard, gentleman, british police ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, chicago, middle east, britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
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Blackout (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Belgium
TV show
Story: When a nuclear plant is sabotaged, the power grid in Belgium crashes. Prime Minister Annemie Hillebrand is forced to prolong the blackout, otherwise her daughter -who has been kidnapped- will die. Can Michael Dendoncker of the counter terrorism ...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot: kidnapped child, war on terror, female soldier, child abduction, terrorist, police, blackmail, secret mission, terrorism, counter terrorism, kidnapping, mission ...
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Enemy Within (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd ...
Style: tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: spy, cia, fbi, cia agent, female agent, terrorist, fighting crime, partner, die hard, secret mission, partners against crime, unlikely hero ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Agent Hamilton (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Carl Hamilton has just returned to Sweden after many years of secret education in the US when Stockholm is shaken by a series of terrorist attacks. Hamilton is assigned to assist the Swedish intelligence service in their pursuit of the guilty, but ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, terrorism, secret service, black ops, rogue agent, double agent, secret agent, disguise, investigation, conspiracy, terrorist attack, panic ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Los Nuestros (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: Two children are imprisoned by the jihadists and hidden in a village while terrorists prepare the conditions for transfer them to the Algerian desert. A group of Spanish Special Forces from the Army is sent to rescue them. To success in the mission ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: special agent, heroic mission, terrorist, rescue, war on terror, swat team, terrorist group, terrorism, rescue mission, saving a life, teamwork, agent
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
FBI: Most Wanted (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. Seasoned agent Jess LaCroix oversees the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the ...
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, detective ...
Plot: fbi, fbi agent, crime investigation, criminal, murder, investigation, special agent, task force, die hard, partners against crime, criminal justice, partner ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Wolf (2018)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: Tasked with risky missions across Turkey, members of a special-operations police unit confront danger and tragedy both on the field and at home.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: military, turkish army, battles, heroes, fear, danger, society, showdown, swat team, fight, power struggle, political unrest ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.3
 57
Aftermath (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: Aftermath is a supernatural crime drama based on the popular Naver webtoon by Kim Sun Kwon ("Survivors of Those Days," "K Errands Center"). It is a thrilling story of murder, mystery, and love that was made exclusively for Naver ...
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: supernatural, supernatural power, student, heroes, youth, flash forward, characters in danger, supernatural ability, rescue, curses spells and rituals, seeing the future, victim ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 8.1
 33K
Strike Back (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, terrorist, mission, soldier, top secret, swat team, heroes, one man army, cia agent, daring rescue, heroic mission, terrorism ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: pakistan, afghanistan, iraq, middle east, sudan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.0
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The Kingdom (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, investigation, terrorist, fbi, military, deception, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, mission, muslim, evidence, gunfight ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, saudi arabia, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.1
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Special Unit (2007)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
TV show
Story: GSG 9 is a German TV-series about the special unit GSG 9 der Bundespolizei of the German Federal Police. It premièred in the Spring of 2007. Its original title, GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben, is a pun on the word Einsatz. Einsatz can be ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: police, super soldier, swat team, secret mission, counter terrorism, terrorism, fighting crime, rescue mission, teamwork, intelligence agency, heroic mission, war on terror ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Shadow hunters (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Adventures of an anti-terrorism special forces team.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: counter terrorism, swat team, war on terror, terrorism, terror, agent, terrorist, terrorist group, coworker, terrorist attack, fighting crime, special agent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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E-Ring (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: E-Ring is an American television military drama, created by Ken Robinson and David McKenna and executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, that premiered on NBC on September 21, 2005. The title of the show refers to the structure of The Pentagon, which ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious ...
Plot: swat team, terrorism, undercover, fighting the system, politics, danger, rebellion, workplace, state affairs, military, spy, chain of command ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Trace (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A new governmental body is created to solve X-file and high-crime cases. Federal Expert Service brings together specialists in various areas: software development, ballistics, forensic, and investigators. FES is doing the whole range of expertise ...
Style: exciting, disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: evidence, murder, police, crime scene, violence, investigation, homicide detective, chase, danger, society, disorder, brutality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Deep State (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may mean he has no life to go back to.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: british secret service, cia, intelligence agency, spy, tough guy, conspiracy, father son relationship, estranged son, espionage, special agent, revenge, danger ...
Place: london, middle east, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Designated Survivor: 60 Days (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: An explosion at the National Assembly kills everyone in the cabinet, leaving Park Mu-jin, the Minister of Environment, to become the next president. Park Mu-jin is a scientist-turned-politician who has no ambitions in politics, but as the acting ...
Style: political thriller, captivating, tense, suspenseful, political
Plot: terrorist attack, politics, president, conspiracy, twists and turns, justice, catastrophe, family relations, danger, investigation, terrorism, counter terrorism ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Lawless Lawyer (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Driven by the desire to avenge his mother, a former gangster turned lawyer uses both his fists and the loopholes in law to fight against those with absolute power.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: lawyer, corruption, investigation, vigilantism, danger, murder, money, society, entertainment, couples, teamwork, mixed martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Machinery (2020)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Olle Hulten wakes up drunk on the ferry between Sandefjord and Strömstad. In his car is a gun and a lot of money. Simultaneously the police is chasing a robber whom have hijacked a car and is holding the security guard at gunpoint.
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: conspiracy, police, chase, danger, gangster, who done it, police investigation, investigation, violence, heroes, vengeance, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a ...
Style: serious, suspense, captivating, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, investigation, terrorism, spy, agent, terrorist, conspiracy, twists and turns, cia agent, danger, shooting ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, langley virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Blood out of Blood (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, murder, criminal heroes, heroes, crime family, parents and children, family relations, death, rivalry, violence, gang war, power struggle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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A Good Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Who and What is “A Good Man”? This is the central question in this original drama series from Konstantin Bogomolov, agent provocateur of Russian cinema. Based on a true story, inspired by the capture of Russia’s most prolific and brutal serial ...
Style: enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful, detective, suspense
Plot: serial killer, female detective, investigation, police investigation, murder, maniac, brutality, police, danger, small town, police officer, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Good Cop (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot: police, rivalry, loss of friend, law enforcement, life turned upside down, vigilantism, revenge, investigation, murder, friendship, danger, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.0
 439
Pistolera (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of ...
Style: exciting, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug lord, vengeance, murder, danger, gangster, death, battles, drug dealer, violence, society, obsession, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.0
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Hunting (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story: The show focuses on the economic crimes and mainly talks about the police's investigation on a tycoon in Beijiang.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, cybercrime, who done it, partner, violence, uncover truth, partners against crime, cyberspace, police detective, cybernetics, law enforcer, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 8.4
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24 (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: 24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method ...
Style: exciting, cliffhanger, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: terrorism, president, political conspiracy, secret service, terrorist, terrorist plot, government agency, race against time, assassination of president, investigation, assassination attempt, twists and turns ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.5
 107K
The Night Agent (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: While monitoring an emergency line, a vigilant FBI agent answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, dramatic, exciting ...
Plot: conspiracy, politics, oval office, fbi agent, agent, special agent, world war, die hard, law, fbi, chief of staff, witness protection ...
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.1
 9K
Crisis (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When Washington's most powerful players are pulled into an international conspiracy, an unlikely puppeteer will bring everyone from CEOs to The President of the United States to their knees by threatening the things they hold most dear.
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Plot: secret service, hostage, conspiracy, investigation, kidnapping, fbi, special agent, betrayal, confined, parents and children, twists and turns, older man teenage girl relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 8.3
 38K
Fauda (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Plot: espionage, israeli palestinian conflict, terrorist, war on terror, terror, israeli, assassination, murder, danger, chase, mossad, spy ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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