Arms deal movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant arms deal movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense and entertaining films and TV shows about / with arms deal, weapons, explosion, betrayal, gun, gunfight, murder, shootout, fight and revenge plots mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as arms deal: Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Secret Agents (2004), Ronin (1998), No Tomorrow (1999), Johan Falk: Vapenbröder (2009), Shadows in Paradise (2010), Deal of the Century (1983), Operation Warzone (1988), Emergency Police Lady (1989), Deadly Engagement (2002).
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List of arms deal movies
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
Style:
clever, political, factual, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold war, cia, politics, womanizer, satire, spy, politician, propaganda, swimming pool, soviet afghanistan war, congressman, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, year 1988, 2000s, year 2007 ...
Place:
afghanistan, washington d.c., texas, pakistan, helsinki finland ...
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Genre: Crime, Action, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
frame up, arms deal, secret agent, double agent, betrayal, ship, agent, female agent, secret service, espionage, female nudity, covert operation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, switzerland, morocco, europe, madrid ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of ...
Style:
clever, suspenseful, neo noir, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, car chase, cia, mafia, mercenary, covert operation, shootout, car, escapades, undercover, caper, ira ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, nice france, french riviera
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When the world's most notorious criminal allies himself with a senior employee of a major shipping corporation, a lethal deal is struck to secure a multi-million dollar arms transaction. As word of the sinister deal spreads through the ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
rivalry, gangster, hip hop, injustice, martial arts, criminal heroes, urban ghetto life, law enforcement, arms deal, arms dealer, hip hop culture, african american ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
John Falk is on a routine mission with the Gothenburg police special unit GSI. With the help of a Norwegian undercover police and a civilian infiltrator in one of Gothenburg's heaviest criminal gangs, the GSI are trying buy six assault rifles ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot:
police detective, criminal, investigation, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, working undercover, danger, gang, arms dealing, criminal gang, weapons, swedish police ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, War
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
During a rescue operation in Iraq, Special Forces member Max Forrester is devastated when Sasha, his squad mate and fiancée goes missing. Two years later, Max now out of the military, receives a call from his ex-commander, Captain Dyer, informing ...
Style:
disturbing, exciting, entertaining, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
terrorist, action violence, fight, military, commando mission, fistfight, arms deal, gunfight, ex soldier, mixed martial arts, soldier, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
iraq
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, political ...
Plot:
cons and scams, cold war, disorder, dark humor, technology gone awry, nothing goes right, chase, greed, satire, aggression, arms deal, aviation ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
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Genre: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A squad of U.S. troops seek out a mysterious agent hiding out in the jungles of 1960s Vietnam whom has classified documents that could win the war.
Style:
action packed, suspense, period piece, bleak, independent film
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle, conspiracy, betrayal, jungle warfare, survival, corruption, arms deal, reconnaissance, rescue mission, dangerous mission, brotherhood ...
Time:
60s
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of police women keep the city safe. A normal day day includes everything from battling robbers to going undercover to break up a arms deal that threatens the city.
Style:
tension, fast paced, suspense, retro, action comedy ...
Plot:
police procedural, fighting crime, law enforcement, martial arts, teamwork, female empowerment, city, arms deal, heroism, covert operation, robbery, trick ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The rules of the game have just changed...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, heroic, fast paced, sexploitation film
Plot:
lesbian sex, weapon of mass destruction, rescue mission, kidnapping, nuclear threat, hostage, espionage, hand to hand combat, military, arms deal, one man army, danger ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A missed highway exit and here is Darry Marzouki, unemployed conjurer, crossing the road with Irène Montier Duval, a beautiful bourgeois, the Hermès bag full of banknotes. Out of love, she served as an intermediary in an arms sale between a French ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, road movie, romantic comedy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
on the run, love affair, unemployment, corruption, escape, mistaken identity, odd couple, class differences, freedom, arms deal, scam, political scandal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, geneva switzerland, asia, korea
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on ...
Style:
retro, tense, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
kidnapping, civil war veteran, rescue, homecoming, train, brother brother relationship, marriage proposal, shootout, pursuit, woman in jeopardy, civil war, brothers ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Place:
texas, mexico
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist ...
Style:
political, clever, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
journalism, reporter, journalist, conspiracy, u.s. government, investigative journalism, politics, drug smuggling, investigative reporter, media manipulation, media, cia ...
Time:
80s, year 2014, 70s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
latin america, california, los angeles, nicaragua, usa ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
Style:
slapstick, humorous, independent film, not serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
stupidity, conspiracy theory, chase, dimwit, paranoia, warehouse, junkyard, arms deal, stupid kid, erotica, satire, arms dealing ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The last of the 'Airport' series again stars George Kennedy as aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni, this time having to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps!
Style:
psychological, cult classic, fast, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, aviation, airport, airplane, natural disaster, air disaster, arms dealer, survival, terrorism, murder, airplane accident, missile ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 80s
Place:
europe, france, alps, washington d.c., paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The ruthless and cruel Captain Ramirez hunts down and kills revolutionaries in his search for The Saint, the righteous leader of the Mexican insurrection against the Federales.
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western
Plot:
mexican revolution, arms deal, mexican american border, u.s. mexico border, betrayal, escape, father daughter relationship, military officer, mexican border, revolutionary, mexican woman, night ...
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S. cavalry fort in retaliation.
Style:
spaghetti western, independent film, realistic, semi serious, tense ...
Plot:
mexican revolution, cowboy, arms deal, adventurer, mexican history, traveler, pancho villa, heroes, against the odds, collision, train, political unrest ...
Time:
year 1972, 1910s, year 1916
Place:
latin america, mexico, sonora
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three friends get caught in a life of major crime.
Style:
sad, independent film, cult classic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, underworld, muslim, arab culture, islam, mafia, migration, politics, organized crime, immigration, wedding, gangster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hamburg germany, germany, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, clever, suspense, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
cia, espionage, secret service, secret agent, conspiracy, mission, chase, undercover, train, spy, disguise, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
prague, virginia, paris france, shanghai, london ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was ...
Style:
semi documentary, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mossad, assassination, engineer, secretary, cia agent, undercover agent, cia, weapon of mass destruction, artillery, iraq war, intrigue, war ...
Time:
year 1988, 90s
Place:
middle east, baghdad iraq, london, iraq, brussels ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
Style:
saga, suspense, exciting, spy action, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
007, espionage, cold war, soviet afghanistan war, desert, cello, assassin, secret service, secret agent, deception, british secret service, cia agent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
vienna, britain, soviet union, central europe, middle east ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the ...
Style:
epic, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, battles, war, courage, japanese history, warrior, pride and honor, self discovery, human spirit, honor, loyalty ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, year 2003, 1800s ...
Place:
japan, asia, africa, san francisco, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money ...
Style:
dark comedy, neo noir, tense, talky, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
gangster, flight attendant, stewardess, ex convict, airport, robbery, bail bondsman, deception, blaxploitation, female protagonist, arrest, heist ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, africa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Andy and her team of immortal warriors fight with renewed purpose as they face a powerful new foe threatening their mission to protect humanity.
Style:
action adventure, dark, psychotronic, tragic, queer cinema
Plot:
superhero, immortality, gay, villainess, good versus evil, villain, gay couple, warrior, murder, interracial romance, body horror, lgbt ...
Place:
croatia, indonesia, paris france, south korea, italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
Style:
clever, harsh, crime thriller, suspense, twist ending ...
Plot:
prison, prison gang, gang, prisoner, prison life, criminal, estranged father, organized crime, skinhead, abuse, tattoo, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, pasadena california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually ...
Style:
black comedy, epic, satirical, cynical, art house ...
Plot:
world war two, communism, satire, surrealism, genocide, brutality, greed, lie, culture clash, imagination, tragedy, propaganda ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, year 1995, year 1941, 60s ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, serbia, balkan, eastern europe, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot:
american indian, rescue, hostage, cowboy, small town, chase, captivity, society, culture clash, chief, squaw, civil war ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 1880s
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
To his family, François Voisin is nothing more than a humdrum civil servant. In truth, for the past twenty years he has been working as a secret agent. All goes well until circumstances put his secret in danger.
Style:
parody, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
videotaped sex, james bond spoof, spy spoof, disorder, rivalry, heroes, government agency, chases and races, hidden identity, infidelity, secret agent, lovers ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the British Raj. Owing to a lack of funds, she recruits ...
Style:
serious, entertaining, cult classic, sincere, exciting ...
Plot:
politics, rebelliousness, sikh, murder, patriotism, courage, coming of age, society, state affairs, protest, patriot, corruption ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
india, middle east, new delhi, asia, london ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created ...
Style:
hood, cult classic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, vigilante, female warrior, urban, vigilantism, gang, murder, black, ghetto, vengeance, tough heroes, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1996, 90s, 70s
Place:
indiana, usa
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