Movies like Legacy of Lies

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Legacy of Lies (2020)
 5.1
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Legacy of Lies (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Poland, Ukraine, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An ex-MI6 agent is thrown back into the world of espionage and high stakes to uncover the shocking truth about operations conducted by unknown secret services.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, harsh, exciting, action thriller
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, spy, secret, revenge, agent, violence, woman, pursuit, fight, gunfight, martial arts, 007, mental health, daughter, british, police, chase
Time: contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films with plots about martial arts, violence, danger, rivalry, fight, heroes and revenge mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Legacy of Lies: The Hard Corps (2006), Mandrill (2009), Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013), Dark Asset (2023), Bloodmatch (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hard Corps (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, one man army, heroes, athlete's life, rivalry, vengeance, gang, gunfight, violence, corrupt cop, rapper, interracial ...
Place: british columbia, afghanistan, middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Mandrill (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mandrill (M. Zaror) is a high-level assassin whose parents many years ago were slaughtered in cold blood by a ruthless drug lord. Now he finds himself finally in a position to get his revenge. But since it falls in love precisely in the pretty ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, hitman, vengeance, danger, rivalry, escapades, fall in love, spy, seduction, seductive behavior, seductive man, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, ninjitsu, kung fu, fight, revenge, master warrior, mortal combat, medieval, murder, murder mystery, karate ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: asia, burma, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 4.0
 397
Dark Asset (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A charming guy attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bloodmatch (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, intergender wrestling, fight, female fighter, kickass, female fight, revenge, sex scene, woman fights a man, kung fu, fistfight ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Eliminators (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: washington d.c., england, london
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The Commando (2022)
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: An elite DEA agent returns home after a failed mission when his family makes an unexpected discovery in their house – a stash of money worth $3 million. They soon face the danger and threat of a newly released criminal and his crew, who will do ...
Style: tense, suspense, emotional, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Caleb, a former government assassin in hiding, who resurfaces when his protégé, the equally deadly killer known as Banshee, discovers a bounty has been placed on Caleb's head.
Style: serious, suspense, captivating, emotional, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassin, bounty hunter, murder, chase, revenge, friendship, fighting crime, family relations, killings, gunfight, death of father, killer
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Witness to a Kill (2001)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who threaten the economies of many African states.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, murder, daring rescue, hotshot hero, heroic mission, dishonesty, government agency, danger, undercover, political conspiracy, betrayal, assassination attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Way of War (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: state affairs, danger, terrorism, assassination, political conspiracy, political corruption, dishonesty, government agency, military, race against time, political intrigue, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Extraction (2013)
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner extraction mission. Forced to fight his way out of a maximum-security Chechen prison, he must keep his ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, martial arts, assassination, heroes, on the run, murder, conspiracy, politics, manhunt, protagonist as suspect, rivalry, undercover ...
Place: british columbia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 4.6
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The lives of three female assassins take a sudden turn when their charming boss lures them into one last job. They soon find themselves thrust into a bizarre situation involving a psychotic hit man, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, predictable ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Thriller
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Duration: 86 min.
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Blood Money (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
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Duration: 109 min.
Story: Zheng Zhou is the most feared warrior from the Shaolin Dynasty in China. His fighting and weapons skills are legendary. But when his parents are killed and sister kidnapped, he turns to a life of drugs and crime that will almost kill him. With the ...
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61%
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon ...
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The Numbers Station (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
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Story: When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a ...
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60%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Action, Thriller
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Duration: 104 min.
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Suspect (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Dong-chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover their corpses. He soon finds ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: spy, espionage, hitman, intrigue, political conspiracy, false accusation, law enforcement, assassination, betrayal, danger, frame up, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.1
 7K
Hunt to Kill (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcée mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his ...
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Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 3.1
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Sunstorm (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When The General is assassinated in the streets of San Juan, his four daughters are left embroiled in a scheme that leads all the way to the CIA and U.S. Treasury department. Now they must rely on each other to escape with their lives.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.6
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Cold Steel (1987)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 3.5
 896
Dead Drop (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, betrayal, danger, tough heroes, dishonesty, chases and races, master criminal, working undercover, revenge, car chase, spy, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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