Movies like Black Sunday
If you like "Black Sunday" you are looking for exciting, suspenseful and sexy movies about / with terrorism, american football, politics, disaster, revenge, suspense and paranoia themes of Adventure, Crime and Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Black Sunday (1977)
8K
Where to Watch
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, sexy, scary, psychological, tense, brutal, neo noir, political, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, american football, politics, disaster, revenge, suspense, paranoia, cheerleader, spy, chase, airplane, violence, betrayal, secret service, conspiracy, tragedy, espionage, graphic violence, political intrigue, serial killer, death, murder, cold war, weapons, gunfight ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
florida, miami, middle east, israel, usa, los angeles, washington d.c. ...
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Black Sunday
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, tense and intense films with plots about corruption, death, dialogue, chase, suspense, murder and violence mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Black Sunday: The Day of the Jackal (1973), Executive Decision (1996), Munich (2005), Marathon Man (1976), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, political, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot:
terrorism, conspiracy, espionage, politics, investigation, police investigation, serial killer, spy, terrorist, hitman, assassin, terrorist plot ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, vienna, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, hostage, rescue, suspense, surveillance, hijacking, bomb, twists and turns, terrorist, ransom, pilot ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
pentagon, washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
231K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
political, suspenseful, intense, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, jewish, spy, mossad, politics, murder, judaism, terrorist, secret agents ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, germany, beirut lebanon, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, revenge, paranoia, dentist, nazi, kidnapping, violence, spy, chase, jewish, suspense, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, uruguay, paris france, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
cia, espionage, terrorism, conspiracy, secret agents, spy, terrorist, race against time, undercover agent, surveillance, murder, political conspiracy ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2001, year 2003, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
russia, london, new york, manhattan new york city, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Also search:
Movies similar to Se7en
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, political, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, conspiracy, cia, espionage, politics, sniper, president, suspense, drug cartel, assassination, violence, drugs ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
colombia, usa, washington d.c., langley virginia, panama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, dark ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, suspense, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, murder investigation, mind game, brutality, fbi ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, maryland, chicago illinois, memphis, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, neo noir, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
police corruption, internal affairs, police investigation, suspense, corruption, manipulation, psychopath, police, corrupt cop, law enforcement, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Movie in collections
279K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, tense, twist ending, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, suspense, investigation, mind game, fbi, murder, torture, split personality, profiler, reporter ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
canada, atlanta georgia, baltimore, birmingham alabama, chicago illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, military, spy, cold war, suspense, soldier, prisoner, sergeant, airport, politics, state affairs, government agency ...
Time:
80s
Place:
germany, chicago illinois, washington d.c., berlin germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Also search:
Movies similar to Prisoners
32K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, rough, sexy, thought provoking ...
Plot:
secret service, kidnapping, investigation, politics, missing person, undercover, spy, suspense, espionage, conspiracy, secret agents, political conspiracy ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
harvard university, usa, boston, london, dubai
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
assassination, conspiracy, race against time, twists and turns, kidnapping, conspiracy theory, accountant, hostage, murder, politics, terrorism, suspense ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, twist ending ...
Plot:
terrorism, suspense, counter terrorism, investigation, fbi, nuclear bomb, violence, twists and turns, politics, spy, cia, interrogation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, middle east, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder in which the President of The United States is involved occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run yet may hold evidence that could convict the President. A political thriller ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, political, intense, serious ...
Plot:
secret service, political corruption, murder mystery, politics, suspense, political conspiracy, assassination, conspiracy, justice, usa president, witnessing a crime, white house ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, political, tense, intense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
secret service, suspense, obsession, election, gunfight, undercover, assassination of president, assassination attempt, conspiracy, terrorism, espionage, stalking ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., california, los angeles, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Also search:
Movies similar to Sicario
106K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.
Style:
intense, emotional, tense, factual, inspirational ...
Plot:
terrorism, police, tragedy, fbi, gunfight, suspense, terrorist, manhunt, explosions, violence, investigation, chase ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, boston, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, cannibalism, murder, suspense, revenge, vengeance, childhood, insanity, dehumanization, loss of sibling, murderer ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, year 1944, year 1941 ...
Place:
china, paris france, europe, russia, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
hitman, suspense, psychopath, desert, human nature, serial killer, greed, peril, brutality, sheriff, death, murderer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, political ...
Plot:
politics, corruption, conspiracy, investigation, reporter, murder, journalism, undercover, media, senator, twists and turns, political conspiracy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, los angeles, latin america, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
120K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI boss and a former IRA terrorist.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, clever, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, spy, gangsters, assassination attempt, chase, revenge, suspense, cold war, assassin, twists and turns, assassination, conspiracy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
washington d.c., russia, montreal, moscow russia, chicago illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Also search:
Movies like No Country for Old Men
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, revenge, suspense, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, chase, hitman, gangsters, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a ...
Style:
political, neo noir, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, murder, conspiracy, police investigation, espionage, kgb, murder investigation, suspense, politics, murder mystery, police corruption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
moscow russia, russia, ussr, sweden, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Style:
intense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
politics, terrorist plot, kidnapping, special agents, brutality, violence, spy, political unrest, police corruption, secret agents, heroes, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, washington d.c., usa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Style:
psychological, talky, suspenseful, stylized, tense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
investigation, kidnapping, murder, ransom, dark humor, spiritualist, suspense, cons and scams, amateur detective, disguise, deception, psychic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, plymouth
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The plot is about a guile young terrorist who is able to blackmail a series of companies by placing home-made radio controlled bombs within the central attraction of amusement parks; roller coasters. The young man played by Timothy Bottoms gives a ...
Style:
suspenseful, talky, tense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, investigation, murder, terrorism, amusement park, police investigation, suspense, natural disaster, conspiracy theory, catastrophe, psychopath, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, pittsburgh, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Also search:
Films like Man on Fire
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, intense, harsh ...
Plot:
investigation, nazi, spy, world war two, espionage, jewish, war criminal, conspiracy, war crime, holocaust, israeli, neo nazi ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1963, post world war two ...
Place:
germany, hamburg germany, israel, vienna, west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller from American director John Frankenheimer. An American soldier is brainwashed into being a killer for the communist Russians during the Korean War.
Style:
psychological, political, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
conspiracy, cold war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, manipulation, korean war, senator, assassin, political intrigue, spy, suspense, politics ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1952
Place:
new york, north korea, korea, usa, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
23K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style:
tense, harsh, intense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, police officer, police, corruption, investigation, rookie, robbery, partners, fighting the system, testimony ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, new jersey, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
conspiracy, terrorism, twists and turns, suspense, terrorist, murder, professor, paranoia, deception, fbi, uncover truth, mysterious character ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., virginia, west virginia, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
58K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, entertaining, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, terrorism, twists and turns, religion, islam, conspiracy, undercover, suspense, bomb, spy, cia, faith ...
Time:
year 1978, 21st century
Place:
london, africa, middle east, israel, sudan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Related movie lists
