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List of government agency movies
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the blame on a local agricultural research center. A reporter encourages the angry ranchers - led by the ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
quarantine, investigation, bio weapon, government agency, journalism, race against time, danger, virus, biohazard, infection, protest, civil unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
RAW agent Tiger is on a mission to retrieve information from a scientist in Dublin. The plot centers on an Indian spy (RAW) code-named Tiger who falls in love with a Pakistani spy (ISI) during an investigation and how Tiger's ideology and ...
Style:
exciting, romantic, serious, suspenseful, sentimental ...
Plot:
spy, fall in love, espionage, tough heroes, forbidden love, on the run, chase, government agency, weapon system, undercover, patriot, asian indian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, ireland, chile, asia, turkey ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a remote village on the Suffolk Coast, Frank Perry (Ross Kemp) waits for his past to catch up with him. Previously a spy for MI6 working on Iranian chemical and biological weapons production, his reports led to the deaths of many Iranian ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
undercover, espionage, hidden identity, secret agent, government agency, danger, terrorism, betrayal, on the run, special agent, battles, chases and races ...
Place:
europe, england, iran, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an American woman detained in China and an Arab man detained in New York City.
Style:
serious, realistic, political, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
terrorism, government agency, life is a bitch, confined, captivity, manipulation, politics, nudity, prison, male pubic hair, humiliation, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Fifteen deaf patients took part in an experimental clinical trail aimed at hearing restoration. Within days, fourteen of the fifteen participants in the trial become violently psychotic, ultimately taking their lives to stop violent side effects ...
Style:
experimental, serious, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
special agent, danger, state affairs, mute or deaf, mad scientist, undercover, chases and races, hidden identity, government agency, rivalry, experiment gone awry, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pentagon
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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:
20th century, 60s
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freya McAllister suddenly starts hearing voices in her head on the night of her High School Prom. One night Dr Michael Welles arrives telling Freya that she isn't crazy but that her voices are the thoughts of everyone around her. He teaches her ...
Style:
exciting, psychological, rough, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
mind reading, danger, government agency, special agent, chases and races, manipulation, supernatural power, female protagonist, fight, brain, gang, schizophrenia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Style:
realistic, political thriller, thought provoking, factual, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
espionage, journalism, whistleblower, hacking, fighting the system, moral dilemma, internet, spying, cia, technology, cryptography, ethics ...
Time:
year 2016, 20th century, year 2015, year 2009, year 2011 ...
Place:
japan, russia, hawaii, america, pakistan ...
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Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Athena: Goddess of War is a South Korean espionage television drama series broadcast by SBS in 2010 and a spin-off of 2009's Iris. Budgeted at ₩20 billion like its predecessor, the two series are among the most expensive Korean dramas ever ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, secret agent, undercover, heroes, agent, political conspiracy, chases and races, espionage, state affairs, assassination, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, korea
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
supernatural, stephen king, psychic power, psychic, experiment gone awry, creepy child, little girl, father daughter relationship, evil child, mind control, pyrokinesis, on the run ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, vermont
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20K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, intelligence agency, spy, cia, terrorism, undercover, profanity, code breaking, police, heroes, double agent, renegade ...
Time:
2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, lebanon, europe, britain ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.
Style:
clever, exciting, tricky, absurd, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, heist, master criminal, betrayal, chase, creativity, police investigation, one last job, organized crime, cons and scams, gangster, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2009, future
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an unknown underwater object disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex, a scientific expedition flies to the North Pole to investigate these incidents as well as the sudden, inexplicable rise ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, bleak, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dangerous animal, eel, apocalypse, disaster, collision, save the world, investigation, danger, rescue, heroic mission, chaos, deadly creature ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mind control, brainwashing, political conspiracy, manhunt, government agency, rivalry, undercover, investigation, uncover truth, supernatural ability, dishonesty, murder ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, cyber, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear bomb, computer, terrorism, technophobia, chaos, prodigy, government agency, race against time, heroes, technology gone awry, undercover, danger ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
washington d.c., bosnia, tehran iran, afghanistan, montreal ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, action packed, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
femme fatale, one woman army, woman with a gun, assassin, tough girl, female martial artist, secret agent, assassination, vengeance, martial arts, tough heroes, gunfight ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
vancouver
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, undercover, heroes, espionage, one man army, save the day, tough heroes, secret agent, terrorism, race against time, danger, master criminal ...
Place:
europe, romania, bucharest
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, fighting the system, race against time, undercover, assassination, rebellion, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty, government agency, society ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
bounty hunter, heroes, rivalry, danger, escapades, chases and races, government agency, evil alien, disorder, space and aliens, alien, invasion ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Caught behind the Iron Curtain at the close of the Cold War, CIA agent Alec Carville (Brian Bosworth) has spent 11 years held captive by the KGB in a mental institute. But he's finally offered a shot at freedom by an old nemesis -- if he steals ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
special agent, working undercover, undercover, hidden identity, espionage, starting over, government agency, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, covert operation, spy, secret agent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, boston
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ice Cube stars as Darius Stone, a thrill-seeking troublemaker whose criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star ...
Style:
intense, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
espionage, u.s. president, secret agent, undercover, gunfight, betrayal, horse ranch, heroes, coup d'etat, conspiracy, heroic mission, daring rescue ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, virginia, pentagon
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant Productions in association ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, cerebral, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, terrorism, undercover, working undercover, government agency, state affairs, national security, cia, terrorist, conspiracy, covert operation, intelligence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
espionage, kgb, treason, politics, traitor, communist, betrayal, university, homosexuality, cold war, spy, secret agent ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, europe, london, big ben london
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Disgraced Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains hidden in the kids' house.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, spoof, teen ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
children, nanny, mischievous children, undercover cop, fish out of water, good versus evil, bodyguard, adult child friendship, single father, babies and infants, one against many, chase ...
Time:
year 2005, 2010s
Place:
usa
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756
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, head of state, heroic mission, political conspiracy, race against time, dishonesty, assassination, on the run, state affairs, politics, government agency ...
Time:
60s, future, 20th century
Place:
texas, dallas texas
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683
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A device that controls a powerful Russian-made satellite weapon is stolen by Russian terrorists, who try to escape by flying out but are shot down. The device is now on top of K2. The device is still active and where it will strike is ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, disaster, terrorism, race against time, survival, daring rescue, government agency, intrigue, danger, forces of nature, apocalypse, missile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
himalaya, pentagon, washington d.c.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, martial arts, destiny, danger, rescue, race against time, soldier, atomic bomb, government agency, daring rescue, save the world, secret agent ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, antarctica, los angeles, usa, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This story is about a freelance agent (Seagal) who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, spy, secret agent, martial arts, one man army, good versus evil, on the run, race against time, heroes, political conspiracy, murder, danger ...
Place:
france, europe, poland, germany, warsaw poland ...
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An elite Federal force whose objective is to eliminate organized crime is violently assassinated by an evil Asian crime lord. The sole survivor of the group teams up with his late partner's widow to strike back at the crime lord and his son.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
martial arts, assassination, undercover, organized crime, master criminal, vengeance, rivalry, government agency, revenge, police shootout, criminal underworld, sole survivor ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, save the world, alien invasion, heroic mission, danger, rivalry, government agency, satellite, alien, winter, agriculture, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
future
Place:
antarctica
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