Movies and TV shows like Sleepers 2017

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Sleepers (2017)
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Sleepers (2017)
Original name: Спящие
Genre: Thriller
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: The film's plot unfolds in 2013 during a period of aggravation of the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, the complication of the foreign policy situation in Europe and covers the events of several weeks, during which the Russian special services managed to expose the complex and dangerous combination of their overseas opponents. "Sleeping" is a program of foreign intelligence services, involving the use of agents previously implemented in governing bodies and large business, awaiting a command for active actions in "sleep mode". Only a few veterans who created the network know about the program. Against the backdrop of the interstate crisis, the Sleeping program is resuming.
Style: thought provoking, tense, disturbing, surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: spy, cia, cia agent, agent, investigation, politics, law enforcement, officer, terrorist attack, danger, friendship, corruption, crisis, abduction, reconnaissance, hostage, summer, lovers, rally, rescue, blogger, target, veteran, country, night ...
Time: contemporary
Place: russia, ukraine, moscow russia, middle east, europe, north africa

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Most similar movies to Sleepers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and disturbing films and TV series with plots about investigation, danger, murder, law enforcement, spy, friendship and police mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Sleepers: The Embassy (2016), Meteorite (2015), Cybergeddon (2012), Riot Police (2020), The Bureau (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Embassy (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Luis Salinas, the new ambassador to Thailand, who knows he's going to get his hands dirty in the next four years – if he makes it that long. He's accompanied by his wife, Claudia, and their daughter Ester. Aware that the familiar ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense
Plot: ambassador, embassy, fighting the system, corruption, diplomacy, adultery, bribe, justice, betrayal, father daughter relationship, sex scene, murder ...
Place: bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Meteorite (2015)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Russia
TV show
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, tense
Plot: police, missing person, clairvoyant, investigation, suspicion, colleague, help, extrasensory perception, partner, friendship, danger, meteorite ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Cybergeddon (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Cybergeddon follows the story of agent Chloe Jocelyn as she investigates a slew of seemingly unrelated cyber attacks with fellow agent Frank Parker and incarcerated master hacker Chase Rabbit Rosen. Chloe and her team must crack the worldwide ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: hacker, special agent, cyberspace, fbi, apocalypse, innocent, chases and races, fellow agent, computers and web, dishonesty, law enforcement, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
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Riot Police (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 306 min.
TV show
Story: A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
Style: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: police, conflict, swat, investigation, corruption, female protagonist, murder, urban setting, riot, police investigation, partner, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Bureau (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their ...
Style: tense, realistic, political thriller, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, espionage, undercover agent, terrorism, investigation, danger, national security, secret service, twists and turns, characters in danger, obsession, cia ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria, paris france, israel, iran, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Under Suspicion (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: In the small town of Cienfuegos, it's a very special day for 7-year-old Alicia Vega (Aroa Palacios) and her family: her First Communion. However, when they are celebrating at the family's restaurant, closed for the occasion, she goes ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, surprise ending, detective ...
Plot: investigation, investigator, police, manipulation, who done it, twists and turns, obsession, disappearance, search party
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Manayek (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Izzy Bachar, a police internal affairs investigator, discovers just before retirement that his long time friend Barak, a senior police officer, is accused to be corrupt. Life as he knows it breaks into pieces.
Style: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot: friendship, investigation, dirty cop, corruption, israeli, police officer, friends, partner, chase, escapades, murder, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Red Election (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Sweden
TV show
Story: Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy are thrown together in a race against time. As a terrorist plot against the British PM unfolds, Poulson and Ogilvy are tangled up in a web of lies, murder and power ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: political conspiracy, special agent, power struggle, secret agent, killings, conspiracy theory, espionage, race against time, agent, terrorist plot, fight, deception ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Bitter Daisies (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: While investigating the disappearance of a teen girl in a tight-knit Galician town, a Civil Guard officer uncovers secrets linked to a loss of her own.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, child abduction, justice, rescue, parents and children, danger, hopes, race against time, police officer, supernatural, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 47K
Messiah (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, spiritual ...
Plot: religion, messiah, cia, jesus christ, prophet, cia agent, faith, jesus, police, politics, religious, investigation ...
Place: middle east, israel, texas, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.1
 7K
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 ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
44%
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Slow Horses (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
Style: disturbing, tense, funny, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot: reconnaissance, team, crime investigation, agent, cia agent, misfit, secret agent, prospector, investigation, espionage, british intelligence, unlikely hero ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 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 ⇓
43%
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 4K
Respect (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The protagonist of the story, Ercüment Çözer rebels against disrespect and rudeness that we tend to avoid, ignore and eventually forget. Ercüment Çözer is a sociopath obsessed with the idea of respect. However, this time, he is not alone on ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspenseful
Plot: murder, violence, vigilante, serial killer, businessman, revenge, corruption, danger, who done it, police investigation, partner, evidence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Special Division (2015)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Armenia
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: Only the best join Armenia's Special Division, the team created to investigate complex crimes and bring criminals to justice.
Style: tense, talky, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: police investigation, murder investigation, partners against crime, law enforcer, chase, coworker, police detective, law enforcement, friendship, friends, society, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: armenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, heist, danger, confined, race against time, parents and children, friendship, on the run, abduction, woman with a gun, teen social issues, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript armored truck, crudely yet somehow elaborately rigged with ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, kidnapping, rescue, head of state, danger, secret agent, law enforcement, truck, trucker, die hard, politics ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: canada, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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West of Liberty (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 261 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the novel by Thomas Engström, a former Stasi double agent is asked by his old CIA contact to work one more case.
Style: sincere, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: danger, adaptation, violence, escapades, life is a bitch, friendship, police, destiny, disorder, brutality, murder, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Rahasya Romancha Series (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
TV show
Story: One series, three mysteries! Enjoy an adventurous ride with the stories of a serial killer, a mechanic, and a gambler
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Plot: murder investigation, private detective, homicide detective, uncover truth, sleuth, private investigator, investigation, crime solving, crime investigation
Place: india
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43%
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Crime Time (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Brazil
TV show
Story: What do a cop, a TV presenter, a politician and a dangerous criminal all have in common?
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: criminal, police, politician, private investigation, tv host, crime investigation, cop, police investigation, police officer, investigation
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43%
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Dignity (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, Chile
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The Germanic cult 'Colonia Dignidad' abused children, tortured and killed prisoners in its secret compound. Now, with Chilean dictator Pinochet gone, Leo Ramírez, a young federal prosecutor, must bring its leader Paul Schaefer to justice.
Style: tense, disturbing, exciting, psychological, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: escapades, dishonesty, police, murder, police investigation, danger, life is a bitch, friendship, death, graphic violence, betrayal, redemption ...
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43%
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 2K
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 ⇓
43%
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Ana. All In. (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, Spain
TV show
Story: Ana Tramel is a brilliant criminal lawyer in her lowest hours. She receives a call from her brother, who has been accused of murdering the director of a famous casino. With a small team, she will have to face a huge corporation.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense
Plot: life is a bitch, problem, female lawyer, murderer, investigation, murder mystery, female protagonist, attorney, brother sister relationship, crime investigation, murder suspect, murder investigation ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Extremely Dangerous (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Extremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-National Criminal Intelligence Service undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot: on the run, murder, innocent, danger, gangster, escape, conspiracy, witnessing a crime, investigation, chases and races, life is a bitch, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Sequestered (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A jury is sequestered in a hotel while deliberating a court case with massive implications.
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: legal, uncover truth, jury, murder trial, dishonesty, law enforcement, isolation, lawyer, investigation, hotel, legal investigation, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Moimi glazami (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Style: disturbing, contemplative, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating
Plot: disturbed individual, conspiracy, serial killer, violence, killing spree, maniac, psychopath, scientist, terminal illness, experiment gone awry, medical experiment, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Pied Piper (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Drama series follows a police crisis negotiation team as they try to solve cases without using force. The police crisis negotiation team works on such cases like attempted suicides, hostage situations and terror situations.
Style: semi serious, intense, emotional, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: police investigation, betrayal, friendship, revenge, policewoman, investigation, guilt
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov (Jason Connery), ex-CIA agent Craig (Michael Sarrazin), and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky (Lev Prygunov). They take on the job of ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film, eurospy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, private detective, cold war, law enforcement, british spy, james bond spoof, secret agent, violent content, kidnapping, political conspiracy, woman in danger, nuclear threat ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Pabitra Puppies (2020)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
TV show
Story: A game is deciding the fate of a group of friends, as they drop dead one inside their own homes. But how?
Style: tense, psychotronic, suspense, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot: murder investigation, death, murder mystery, who done it, graphic violence, police detective, violence, danger, friendship, uncover truth, police investigation, evidence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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