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Plot Summary:
When a terrorist surfaces, the Chairman of the Joint Chief urges the President for military response. However, the President prefers to try negotiating. So, the General takes the President prisoner and launches an offensive of his own. And the Vice President is the only one who can do something about it. And the Vice President's a woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Sabotage (1996)
Plot Summary:
Former special services agent plays an intricate game of chess involving several federal agencies. Queen takes pawn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, action adventure, independent film
Similar in 81%
Favorite Son (1988)
Plot Summary:
Favorite Son is a miniseries about political intrigue that aired on NBC in 1988 a week before that year's presidential election. It starred Harry Hamlin, Linda Kozlowski, James Whitmore, Robert Loggia, John Mahoney, Ronny Cox, and a pre-Seinfeld Jason Alexander. The miniseries was adapted from the 1987 novel of the same written by Steve Sohmer, who also wrote the teleplay.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 255 min
Plot tags: political thriller
Similar in 89%
Pursuit (1972)
Plot Summary:
What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heartstopping race to save millions from certain death in this taut and gripping thriller. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, ER) "makes an impressive directorial debut" (The Hollywood Reporter) in this deadly cat-and-mouse game in which the stakes couldn't be higher! When government agent Steven Graves (Ben Gazzara) investigates political extremist James Wright (E.G. Marshall), he uncovers a diabolical plot to blast lethal nerve gas into San Diego during the Republican Convention. What's worse, a computer hacker (Martin Sheen) has provided Wright with a psychological profile to help him outwit Graves. As Wright ingeniously eludes Graves, can Graves find a way to stop him before the ultimate nightmare begins?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, adaptation directed by original author
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The Assassination File (1996)
Plot Summary:
An ex-FBI agent gradually uncovers the nature of a conspiracy behind the death of a black presidential candidate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Liberty Stands Still (2002)
Plot Summary:
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a sniper whose young daughter was a victim of gun violence, and who now has Liberty in his sights.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, stylized, rough, inspirational, serious, realistic, minimal cast, psychological thriller
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The President's Mistress (1978)
Plot Summary:
When Ben investigates the mysterious death of his sister, he is unaware that he is opening up a web of political intrigue. Ed Murphy, the White House Chief of Staff, becomes embroiled in a struggle to save the President from a humiliating scandal.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The President's Plane Is Missing (1973)
Plot Summary:
When the President's plane mysteriously disappears with him on board, it is left to the seemingly weak Vice President to try and advert a nuclear exchange with the Chinese.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The President's Man: A Line in the Sand (2002)
Plot Summary:
A counterterrorism specialist is assigned by the President to track down a terrorist who is suspected of planning to set off a nuclear device in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Deadly Outbreak (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dutton Hatfield, played by Jeff Speakman, is working for the American embassy. He finds himself inside a biochemical weapon laboratory when terrorists headed by Colonel Baron (played by TimeCop villain Ron Silver) take over the place. Baron is looking for a sample of a deadly virus that is being developed inside the facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Turbulence (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Plummer is an FBI Agent whose family is taken hostage while she is on a flight to Washington, DC. "Turbulence" occurs when a mysterious stranger, Michelle, is seated beside her and Sarah is forced to make a decision that could cost her the lives of her husband and twelve-year-old son.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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Aurora: Operation Intercept (1995)
Plot Summary:
There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control and crash, killing everyone aboard. A woman of Russian descent, Francesca Zaborszin, the daughter of a slain Federal investigator, claims responsibility for the crashes. She believes her father was killed by the FBI as part of a cover-up operation and wishes to avenge his death by threatening to down more aircraft using the same electromagnetic pulse method. She also intends to crash a stolen military jet into the White House. There's no time to ground the planes: just enough time to try to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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Strategic Command (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab. They steal large amounts of a newly created germ warfare chemical called Bromax-360, loosing two of their men in the process before escaping into the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Air Marshal (2003)
Plot Summary:
A commercial jet plane has been hijacked by a group of terrorists who don't realize that a U.S. Air Marshal, Brett Prescott (Dean Cochran), is among the passengers. The fate of dozens of people lies in the hands of Prescott, who must forge a one-man war against the hijackers destructive plans.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Live Wire (1992)
Plot Summary:
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, rough, fast
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The Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Assassination (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, political, cult classic, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, political thriller, dark comedy
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White House Down (2013)
Plot Summary:
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 233000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, action packed, action thriller, intense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, political, breathtaking
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Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately gets killed by an assassin. Now bad guys are after Bobby as the only man who knows about a plot. Bishop must now not only survive, but to stop the conspirators from achieving their goal. And he doesn't know whom to trust.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, political thriller, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, political, melancholic, absurd
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Madam Secretary (2014)
Plot Summary:
Former CIA agent Elizabeth Faulkner McCord is suddenly thrust into the position of US Secretary of State where she must quickly learn to drive international diplomacy, wrangle office politics and balance a complex family life.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, political, intelligent, political drama
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Air Force One (1997)
Plot Summary:
Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold his principles - and the integrity of the nation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tension, entertaining, intense, serious, rough, realistic, action packed
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London Has Fallen (2016)
Plot Summary:
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, serious, psychotronic, action adventure, romantic, clever, saga, experimental, scenic
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Advise & Consent (1962)
Plot Summary:
A Senate investigation into the President's newly-nominated Secretary of State gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: political, black and white, clever, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, contemplative, tense
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Murder at 1600 (1997)
Plot Summary:
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, political, tense, rough, detective, political thriller, action adventure, neo noir, serious
Similar in 87%
Angel Has Fallen (2019)
Plot Summary:
Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, humorous, intense, captivating, cliffhanger, clever, political, saga
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By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on what they believe is just another drill only to find out that this is the real deal.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, independent film, corny, disaster movie
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Captured (2000)
Plot Summary:
Matt Hendricks (Dolph Lundgren) is the US Navy's top Marine Special Operations Commander and is facing his toughest challenge yet - Escorting the deadliest viral weapon on the planet back to a safe Storage Faciliy.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, exciting, fast, surprise ending, double entendre
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Voyage of Terror (1998)
Plot Summary:
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Plot Summary:
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, political thriller, rough, serious, suspense, intense, realistic, clever, brutal, action adventure
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The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Plot Summary:
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, political, tense, intense, political thriller, serious, rough, realistic
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The Contender (2000)
Plot Summary:
Political thriller about Laine Hanson's nomination and confirmation as Vice President. An allegation that she was involved in a sexual orgy at the age of 19 is leaked to the press. As pressure mounts on Laine, she's torn between fighting back or sticking to her principles and refusing to comment on the allegations.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: political, clever, thought provoking, serious, sincere, suspense, realistic, talky, dark, independent film