Movies like Avenger 2006
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Avenger (2006)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, political thriller, realistic
Plot:
manhunt, vigilante, undercover, tough heroes, justice, rivalry, working undercover, race against time, government agency, state affairs, save the day, dishonesty, spy, false identity, bosnian war, 007, vigilantism, cavalry, covert operation, social criticism, yugoslav war, hitman, save the world, chases and races, boy ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa, latin america, south africa, washington d.c., bosnia, former yugoslavia
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Most similar movies to Avenger
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films with plots about undercover, danger, chases and races, rivalry, state affairs, dishonesty and deadly mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Avenger: Time Lapse (2001), On Dangerous Ground (1996), The Detonator (2006), Full Disclosure (2001), Thunder Point (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last ...
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Plot:
working undercover, save the day, memory loss, undercover, rivalry, political conspiracy, government agency, danger, dishonesty, political corruption, terrorism, antidote ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
covert operation, spy, world war two, terrorism, violent content, secret agent, special agent, conspiracy, working undercover, government agency, danger, political intrigue ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, hong kong, england
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, undercover, terrorism, woman in danger, on the run, save the day, rivalry, survival, witnessing a crime, race against time, espionage, escapades ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
terrorism, hidden identity, manhunt, undercover, special agent, danger, government agency, on the run, journalism, chases and races, federal bureau of investigation, scoop ...
Time:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed.
Style:
action thriller, suspense, political thriller, fast paced, tense ...
Plot:
espionage, ira, spy, covert operation, conspiracy, rescue mission, british intelligence, betrayal, neo nazi, violent, cat and mouse, european ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london
Similarity:
69%
507
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, special agent, secret agent, violent content, law enforcement, master criminal, drug dealing, couple relations, partners against crime, dealing with death, chases and races, government agency ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, murder, conspiracy, secret agent, righting the wronged, whistleblower, disorder, snitch, political corruption, false accusation, frame up ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
65%
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, politics, espionage, spy, intelligence agency, terrorism, prison rape, secret agent, political conspiracy, race against time, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
It's the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union with the Communists launching a spy satellite that has the Free World leaders in a panic. Fears about the nature of the satellite force the United States to send an ...
Style:
grindhouse, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, voice over narration, anti communist, sabotage, propaganda, satellite, invasion, nuclear missile, chaos, state affairs, escapades ...
Time:
year 1957, year 1961, future, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
russia, moscow russia, usa, new york
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, undercover, secret agent, car chase, prison, betrayal, on the run, working undercover, cold war, rivalry, danger, spy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ireland, russia, london, europe, england ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
secret agent, betrayal, conspiracy, on the run, danger, save the day, special agent, manhunt, race against time, law enforcement, undercover, rivalry ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, political thriller
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
57%
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, chess, cold war, law enforcement, british spy, james bond spoof, violent content, secret agent, nuclear threat, danger, undercover ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
russia, europe
Similarity:
57%
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, spy, politics, undercover, cold war, kgb, nuclear bomb, secret agent, conspiracy, closeted homosexual, chase, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
No one knows why the army base was blown up until the President gets shot there during the memorial service for those killed, but he wasn't the only target.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, cliffhanger ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
north korea, russia, korea
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
daring rescue, undercover, terrorism, hostage, rescue, one man army, escapades, save the day, rivalry, confined, danger, race against time ...
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border, the CIA maintains a force of domestic assassins. So secret is their work that their retirement program is a bullet in the head. Up-and-coming hitwoman, Diana, gets the order to dispatch Mars, a legendary ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female assassin, hitman, woman with a gun, spy, covert operation, assassin, soldier, special agent, parents and children, chases and races, assassination attempt, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, hitman, working undercover, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, vengeance, spy, woman with a gun, covert operation, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
534
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Cold War has just heated up! CIA Agent Bob Taylor (Charles Napier) arrives in Moscow with his new wife Susan (Kimberley Kates) with a highly secret video tape of Russian missiles leaving an unknown base near Moscow under the cover of darkness. ...
Style:
independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
shootout, cia agent, nuclear missile, covert operation, world war three, spy, world war, 007, die hard, kidnapping, chase, nuclear ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
46%
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:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge plot, state affairs, danger, assassination, terrorism, political conspiracy, political corruption, military, government agency, dishonesty, race against time, political intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, cuba, washington d.c., middle east
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, terrorist, female nudity, massage, economist, 007, diplomacy, assassination attempt, nudity, secret agent, violent content, peaceful mission ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
nice france, israel, new york, london, england ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A North Korean diplomat defects to the South during the Cold War, but the South Koreans have their suspicions as to whether he is an actual defector or a double agent.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
spy, politics, journalism, political conspiracy, save the day, soldier, terrorism, state affairs, investigation, undercover, danger, government agency ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, north korea, korea, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote, Texas/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two discover the tables have been turned and they are the hunted.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
border patrol, undercover, labor, immigrant, nudity, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, law enforcement, misfit, labor union, working undercover ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, mexico
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to ...
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, visually stunning, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, espionage, berlin wall, spy, funeral, 007, cold war era, betrayal, chase, covert operation, murder, hotel ...
Time:
year 1966, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, england ...
Similarity:
44%
884
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Whitman is a psychotic religious killer who was caught by Inspector Morell a former seminarian, whose religious knowledge led to Whitman's capture. Whitman was tried and sentenced to death. However, he was rescued by a secret government group ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, murder, undercover, danger, violence spree, psychopath, religions or cults, partners against crime, law enforcement, race against time, legal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, san diego california
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kgb, politics, presidential election, espionage, uncover truth, race against time, fighting the system, chases and races, government agency, heroes, danger, secret agent ...
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, ex husband ex wife relationship, save the day, special agent, danger, chases and races, heroes, law enforcement, aviation, race against time, disaster, die hard ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 2000s
Place:
usa, australia, california, oceania, new south wales ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, sonora, arizona, usa, mexico
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