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The Bourne Identity (1988)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story:
An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he can't remember a thing...he does not know his name, he does not know where his flashback memories come from, and he does not know why the access code for an anonymous Swiss bank account is implanted in his thigh. As he seeks his own identity, things quickly become dangerous. There are attempts to kill him, he is well known in first class hotels across Europe, and worst of all, there are strange similarities between his memories and reported actions of the notorious terrorist, Carlos the Jackal.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir, tense, romantic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
amnesia, cia, espionage, memory loss, hitman, assassin, spy, terrorist, conspiracy, identity, heroes, danger, on the run, terrorism, haunted by the past, survival, revenge, violence, betrayal, murder, car chase, gunfight, chase, assassination, female spy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, new york, paris france, zurich switzerland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending and realistic films and TV series with plots about assassin, shot in the chest, violence, pistol, chase, gun and gunfight mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Bourne Identity: The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), Second Nature (2003), Unlocked (2017), Patriot Games (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him ...
Style:
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Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
spy, amnesia, cia, espionage, secret agent, hitman, secret service, one against many, on the run, black ops, secret past, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new jersey, pennsylvania, usa, manhattan new york city, new england ...
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne ...
Style:
exciting, intense, action thriller, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
cia, conspiracy, spy, espionage, secret agent, corruption, secret service, escapades, hitman, tough guy, fighting the system, one man army ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
langley virginia, new york, moscow russia, tangier morocco, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia, UK
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, serious, intense, suspenseful, action thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cia, espionage, terrorism, conspiracy, undercover agent, terrorist, race against time, undercover, government agency, murder, secret agent, corruption ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, september 11 2001, year 2001 ...
Place:
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, India, Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, entertaining, satanic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Everything is not as it seems for a man who recovers from a plane crash in which his family is killed. After plastic surgery and rehabilitation, he determines that he worked for a secret agency for which he was an assassin. His former boss puts him ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, South Korea, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Philippines
Duration: 135 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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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 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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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, heroic, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, working undercover, spy, cia, double agent, female agent, female spy, strong female lead, young woman, betrayal, secret identity, escapades ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, britain, united kingdom, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Spain, Japan, Iceland, Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, action thriller, intense ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
las vegas, berlin germany, washington d.c., reykjavik iceland, greece ...
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29%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, action thriller, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
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28%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
new york, jerusalem, austria, zurich switzerland, tel aviv israel ...
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28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
bucharest, ukraine, eastern europe
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28%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier, alias "Scorpio", a gifted free-lance operative. ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
vienna, langley virginia, washington d.c., paris france, berlin germany ...
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28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada, Singapore
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, singapore
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28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Style:
suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Canada, Czech Republic, India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Croatia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
new york, tokyo, singapore
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, UK, Canada, France, Denmark, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, action thriller ...
Plot:
hitman, agent, cia, assassin, mission, gunfight, special agent, fight, female warrior, murder, killer, murderer ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 2020s, 2000s
Place:
prague, thailand, china, austria, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once the voyage is under way, somehow a nuke A) gets lost in the vicinity, and goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the cruise ship, and its ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco, pentagon, san diego california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, exciting, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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