Movies and TV shows like The Recruit

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The Recruit (2022)
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The Recruit (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: A fledgling lawyer at the CIA that becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic
Plot: lawyer, spy, cia, prison, lgbt, politics, criminal, espionage, homosexuality, jail, cia agent, supernatural, law, hindi, gun, netflix

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspenseful and exciting films and TV series with plots about criminal, spy, espionage, cia, investigation, spy thriller and politics mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Recruit: The Night Agent (2023), Treason (2022), Covert Affairs (2010), Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018), The Old Man (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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.
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Treason (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 207 min.
TV show
Story: An MI6 deputy's bright future takes a sharp turn after a reunion with a Russian spy forces him to question his entire life.
Style: tense, captivating, thrilling
Plot: spy, mission, politics, agent, espionage, special agent, secret agent, political intrigue, cheating, female spy, law, buddy ...
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Covert Affairs (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, double life, blind man, cia, blindness, female protagonist, secret agent, blind character, female spy, cia agent, undercover, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, langley virginia, virginia
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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.
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The Old Man (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
TV show
Story: Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot: espionage, spy, cia agent, father daughter relationship, mind game, secret agent, manhunt, killer, elderly man, secret identity, political intrigue, threat to kill ...
Time: 2020s
Place: washington d.c.
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Who Is Erin Carter? (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 338 min.
TV show
Story: A British woman's tranquil life in Barcelona spirals out of control when an armed robbery at a supermarket exposes her secret... and violent past.
Style: entertaining, tense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: robbery, burglar, supermarket, heist, convenience store robbery, female teacher, armed robbery, criminal, handgun, female protagonist, thief, town ...
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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
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Time: 21st century
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Condor (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization to a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, erotic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, government conspiracy, murder, investigation, spy, twists and turns, analyst, computer hacker, danger, dialogue, fight scenes, espionage ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, washington d.c.
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35%
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Fortunate Son (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Spy drama set in the social and political chaos of 1968, inspired by a true story. Pursued into Canada by the FBI, the matriarch of an American activist family helps smuggle Vietnam war deserters and draft dodgers across the border. What she ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, exciting, psychological, serious ...
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The Longest Night (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 268 min.
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Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
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State of Affairs (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing. This list of ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: politics, cia, national security, spy, dead son, white house, workplace situations, usa president, u.s. president, president, female protagonist, death ...
Time: 21st century
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It Takes a Thief (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
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Story: It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for two and a half seasons between January 9, 1968, and March 24, 1970. It starred veteran movie actor Robert Wagner in his television debut as sophisticated thief ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: thief, undercover, spy, espionage, government agent, heist, law enforcement, erotic scene, wartime, secret agent, government agency, danger ...
Time: future, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
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Story: Plot kept under wraps. Described as action-packed spy series
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, dramatic, exciting
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The series revolves around a young law school graduate Nasser (Mohammed Ramadan) who lives in the Sabbatiyah area, seeking to join the judiciary. In conflicts with a major arms dealer
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style: dramatic, intense, captivating, suspenseful, tense
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Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, psychological thriller
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Story: During Berlin’s golden age, love and money are what drives him in life. His next big heist? A jackpot of jewels worth 44 million.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, detective, captivating
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, scary, entertaining
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Country: USA
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Style: exciting, tense, dramatic, suspenseful, entertaining ...
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Deep State (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 45 min.
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Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience: adult
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
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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
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Place: south korea
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Shantaram (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Escaped convict Lin Ford flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city’s poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption.
Style: satirical, thrilling, captivating, tense, novela
Plot: criminal, drug addict, slum, organized crime, new life, changing lives, runaway, fugitives, satire, escaped prisoner, lifestyle change, confronting the past ...
Time: 2020s
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Kaleidoscope (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 373 min.
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Style: tense, realistic, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: criminal, betrayal, true crime, money, burglar, revenge, robbery, secret, heist, violence, blood, target ...
Time: 2020s, year 2012, 2010s
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Chasing the Undercurrent (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Chang Zheng, the vice captain of the criminal police brigade, is investigating a shooting case in a suburban villa and locks up the suspect Zhao Pengxiang. The second child of the Zhao family, an inspector who didn't want to be involved in the ...
Style: dramatic, harsh, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: mafia, criminal, criminal gang, chinese mafia, gang of outlaws, gang, crime investigation, police, career criminal, felony, police officer
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33%
Lawyer Sodom (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: A legal suspense drama featuring the unconventional lawyer Odagiri Wataru, who specializes in defending fraud victims. The story revolves around Wataru's choice to defend fraudsters for a specific reason, as he strives to win cases against the ...
Style: suspense thriller, suspense, hardboiled detective, detective, captivating ...
Plot: fraud, female lawyer, injustice, lawyer, attorney, legal, law, fight for justice, court, fight, courtroom drama
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For My Son (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A defamed ex-cop, who is struggling to get back his son, is put on undercover duty within the biggest mafia in Istanbul.
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: revenge, conspiracy, father son relationship, ex cop, mafia, doctor, family relations, love, friendship, working undercover, gang member, gang ...
Place: istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Stella Blómkvist (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Stella is a young, cute, libertine, tough, confident, intelligent, cunning Icelandic lawyer with a flexible moral compass who takes on mysterious and often dangerous cases and only loves rules when she's breaking them.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: corruption, conspiracy, lawyer, bisexual woman, murder, defense attorney, female protagonist, problem, criminal, female lawyer, attorney, depravity ...
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland, china
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