Disobeying orders movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant disobeying orders movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, entertaining and serious films and TV shows about / with disobeying orders, danger, gun, escape, explosion, murder, fight, chase, betrayal and deception plots mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as disobeying orders: Ghost in the Shell (2017), Spooks: The Greater Good (2015), Aliens (1986), Maryina Grove (2012), Baywatch (2017), Legion (2010), The Rebels of PT-218 (2021), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Marlene (2020), Funhouse (2019).

List of disobeying orders movies

Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Canada, India
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, cerebral, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, female protagonist, robot, technology, distopia, hacker, dystopia, tough girl, androids, chase ...
Time: future, year 2017, near future, 2010s, year 2011
Place: tokyo, japan
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Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms, and eventually ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, undercover, female agent, british intelligence, escape, one man army, corruption, disobeying orders, police, secret agent, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, united kingdom, berlin germany ...
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 8.4
 835K
Aliens (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style: futuristic, scary, suspense, space horror, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, strong female character, space travel, creature, female warrior, survival, space and aliens, outer space, monster, space, creature feature, spaceship ...
Time: 22nd century, 20th century, year 1986, future
Place: space western
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Maryina Grove (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: MURA operative Konstantin Troshin returns from the front after the victory in the Great Patriotic War and finds out that he no longer works in the police. The reason is a conflict with an influential general of the NKGB of the USSR. But Troshin ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, melancholic, suspense
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: insubordination, danger, society, fighting crime, disobeying orders, male female relationship, crime investigation, unsolved crime, secret revealed, police detective, uncover truth, cold case ...
Time: post world war two, 20th century
Place: ussr
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 5.5
 217K
Baywatch (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Style: buddy comedy, feel good, light, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lifeguard, beach, swimming, water, sea, rookie, muscleman, drowning, chase, male objectification, obstacle course, disguise ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: california, north america, florida, usa
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USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and ...
Style: dramatic, realistic, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: warship, world war two, u.s. navy, sea, ocean, shark, military, rescue, world war, survival, naval battle, disobeying orders ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: san francisco, the philippines, washington d.c., pacific ocean, alabama
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 5.3
 119K
Legion (2010)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, absurd, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: angel, apocalypse, supernatural, religion, good versus evil, prophecy, save the world, extinction, desert, demon, survival, fallen angel ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, north america, los angeles
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The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At the height of WWII, the Atlantic Ocean becomes a deadly battleground as an American torpedo boat fights against the constant bombardment of German forces.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, disturbing
Plot: sea battle, submarine, naval battle, military life, navy, disobeying orders, air attack, wartime, military, bombing, military base, military officer ...
Time: year 1943
Place: sicily
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
Style: saga, action adventure, psychotronic, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: star wars, smuggler, spacecraft, organized crime, spaceship, interspecies friendship, gangster, smuggling, space travel, gambling, robot, dystopia ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: space western
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 4.4
 214
Marlene (2020)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Frank is a contract killer working for a large Styrian crime syndicate. When he is given the task of abducting a girl named Marlene and delivering her to the syndicate, everything changes for Frank. He falls in love with Marlene and disobeys his ...
Style: tense, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disobeying orders, enemy, hitman, chase, compassion, fight scenes, organized crime, dark hero, male female relationship, daring rescue, one man army, lone wolves ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.2
 9K
Funhouse (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When 8 celebrities from around the globe are invited to compete in an online reality show, they soon realize that they are playing for their very lives, as those voted off suffer horrific consequences, broadcast live to the entire world.
Style: scary, bad ending, twist ending, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: isolation, game of death, trap, torture, survival, game, sadism, trapped, video surveillance, rivalry, held captive, characters killed one by one ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.2
 70K
TRON: Ares (2025)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings.
Style: stylized, action packed, futuristic, tense, existential ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, portal, virtual reality, combat, escape, urban, identity, hacker, dystopia, surveillance, laboratory ...
Time: near future, 2020s, future
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 6.8
 138K
Ballerina (2025)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.
Style: ambiguous ending, biting, surprise ending, neo noir, f word
Plot: teacher student relationship, assassin, secret society, ballerina, tattoo, female protagonist, extreme violence, female assassin, vengeance, betrayal, target practice, mountain ...
Time: 2020s
Place: germany, austria, prague, new york
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 5.6
 301K
The Matrix 4 (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 148 min.
Story: The fourth installment in The Matrix franchise. Plot unknown.
Style: cerebral, psychological, saga, tech noir, cyber ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: virtual reality, dystopia, distopia, martial artist, artificial intelligence, female warrior, anti heroine, tough girl, therapist, mental health, robot, fight ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: usa, tokyo, paris france, san francisco
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Outside the Wire (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.
Style: suspense, futuristic, intense, psychotronic, surprise ending ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, humanoid robot, terrorism, terrorist, androids, cyborgs, military, fear, showdown, nuclear threat, fight, violence ...
Time: near future, 2030s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: utah, ukraine, russia, europe
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The Thief Lord (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, exciting, detective ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: escapades, friendship, orphan, imaginary, magic, mischievous children, police, youth, young heroes, abuse, rejuvenation, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: civil rights, racism, african american, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, racial segregation, children, american south, abuse, interracial relations, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place: indiana, africa, usa, south carolina
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 7.1
 179K
Allied (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style: sexy, suspense, period piece, tense, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, espionage, spy, nazi, female agent, love, secret mission, double agent, betrayal, prospector, female spy, undercover ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, year 1942, future, 2010s ...
Place: london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
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 6.5
 112K
Money Monster (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Style: suspense, clever, entertaining, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: hostage, stock market, police, wall street, finance, corruption, revenge, conspiracy, money, capitalism, hostage negotiator, sniper ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: south africa, new york, russia, reykjavik iceland, south korea ...
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 ...
Style: teen, saga, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, girls' night
Plot: distopia, strong female lead, dystopia, resistance, chase, rebellion, dystopian future, brutality, chosen one, tough girl, female warrior, fight ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, future, near future, year 2016
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 6.1
 248K
RoboCop (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, intense, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, police, cyberpunk, urban, technology, haunted by the past, graphic violence, superhuman powers, androids, tough law enforcer ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: detroit, usa, pentagon, tehran iran, china ...
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 6.5
 182K
The Mechanic (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But ...
Style: suspenseful, clever, suspense, action packed, brutal ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, chase, assassin, mentor, martial arts, loner, lone hero, tough guy, expert, vigilante, revenge, killer ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, colombia, usa, new orleans
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Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: texas ranger, martial arts, fbi, one man army, law enforcement, vengeance, buddy cop, lone wolves, special agent, danger, fighting crime, confined ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, latin america, austin texas, mexico, usa ...
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 6.1
 7K
Brannigan (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of ...
Style: detective, black comedy, fast, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, car chase, violence, assassin, gunfight, kidnapping, chase, gangster, buddy cop, police investigation, reluctant partners ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: chicago, london, england, scotland, big ben london ...
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 6.0
 37K
Above the Law (1988)
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: martial arts, conspiracy, aikido, undercover, heroic bloodshed, corruption, drug dealing, vengeance, drug lord, police, vietnam war, kung fu ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, vietnam, usa, illinois, las vegas ...
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Style: suspense, melancholic, talky, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, disaster, survival, race against time, apocalypse, moral dilemma, dystopic future, brutality, rescue, shark, danger ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1961, 1950s, 50s
Place: new york
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 7.1
 120K
WarGames (1983)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a ...
Style: tense, cyber, futuristic, suspenseful, political ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: cold war, hacker, computer genius, computer hacker, computer, chess, computer cracker, nuclear threat, hacking, artificial intelligence, nuclear war, computer system ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: seattle, oregon, ussr, washington state, usa ...
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 5.1
 58K
Stealth (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
Style: action packed, entertaining, action adventure, anamorphic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, warplane, aerial combat, fighter plane, u.s. navy, military, aviation, fighter pilot, profanity, robot, airplane, computer game ...
Time: future, year 2005, 2020s, 21st century
Place: north korea, seattle, alaska, washington d.c., russia ...
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 5.6
 38K
Exit Wounds (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style: stylized, black comedy, detective, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: aikido, police corruption, chase, undercover, bodyguard, martial arts, conspiracy, hand to hand combat, police investigation, violent, secret service, justice ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: detroit, usa
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 5.6
 177K
Pixels (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA, Canada, France, Greece, Australia, UK, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, Vietnam, Portugal, Morocco, Thailand, Egypt, Netherlands, Cyprus, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Denmark, Russia, South Korea, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Qatar, Norway, Philippines, Finland, Austria, Iceland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Israel, Colombia, India, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Estonia, South Africa, Chile, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Croatia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, exciting, cute ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: video game, geek, alien invasion, humanity in peril, chase, transformation, video arcade, alien, escapades, computer cracker, danger, alien attack ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 80s, future, 20th century ...
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa, india, london ...
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