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Plot Summary:
Valley of the Wolves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, suspenseful, intense
Best tv shows and movies like Valley of the Wolves: Ambush (2007):
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The Border (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by John Fawcett, Michael DeCarlo, Ken Girotti, Kelly Makin, Brett Sullivan and Philip Earnshaw. The first season had a total budget of 20 million dollars, with about 1.5 million dollars per episode. The series is set in Toronto and follows agents of the fictitious Immigration and Customs Security agency. ICS was created by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border matters concerning Canadian national security including terrorism and smuggling. The cancellation of The Border was announced by the CBC after three seasons were aired.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, detective, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Ignition (2001)
Plot Summary:
A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, action packed, independent film
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Hidden Agenda (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, exciting, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (2006)
Plot Summary:
The movie opens with a fictionalized depiction of a real-life incident: the arrest on July 4, 2003 of 11 Turkish special forces soldiers and 13 civilians by U.S. forces of the 173rd Airborne commanded by Colonel William C. Mayville in the northern Iraqi Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah. The Turkish soldiers suppose that this is an ordinary visit from their NATO allies. But this time is different.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, political
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Athena: Goddess of War (2010)
Plot Summary:
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 produced. Starring Jung Woo-sung, Cha Seung-won, Soo Ae, and Lee Ji-ah, the series premiered in December 2010 after filming in a number of overseas locations, including Italy, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States. The series is set in the same universe as its predecessor, allowing for select characters from Iris to reprise their roles throughout the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, romantic
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The Listening (2006)
Plot Summary:
Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Valley of the Wolves Gladio (2009)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Plot Summary:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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No Limit (2012)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill French secret service agent is hired by Hydra, a mysterious black ops organization set up by the government, to fight crime by any means necessary and receive experimental treatment in return. Also, his daughter hates him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, realistic
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Agent X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, political, action adventure
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Mask of the Ninja (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo's wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is shattered by a meticulously planned stealth attack on the Takeo home by a masked band of ninja assassins.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, crime drama
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Rebellion (2009)
Plot Summary:
In a district within Hong Kong five gangs have an uneasy truce as they all work within the area. Chaos then ensues when triad leader Jimmy is shot. Jimmy's wife Cheung Wah then appoints his bodyguard Po as the temporary leader of the gang over Jimmy's #2 man Blackie. Po must now find the assassin, control the seething Blackie, and keep their rival gangs at bay before all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Killer Wave (2007)
Plot Summary:
Suddenly the US east coast is hit by a type of natural disaster formerly reserved, except after a major earthquake, for the Pacific and Indian ocean rims: tidal waves of the destructive tsunami type. Scientist and fiction author John McAdams attends a national emergency conference which concludes the phenomenon must be man-made, quite possibly abusing the findings of John's secret former Sea Lion project, but who wants to and has the means? Indeed John soon finds himself set-up for a murder and chased. Major destructions mean major contracts for construction and coastal defenses, so building tycoons like Victor Bannister certainly have a considerable interest.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, exciting, captivating, disaster movie
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The Grid (2004)
Plot Summary:
A team of American and British counter-terrorists are tasked with stopping a terrorist cell who's operating on a global level.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 266 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Kremen (2012)
Plot Summary:
An ex soldier comes to visit a military friend and finds trouble right away. It all starts with a rape of a girl by the local thugs in the town. He must use his fighting skills to defeat the thugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense
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On Dangerous Ground (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dossier K. (2009)
Plot Summary:
Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, detective, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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XIII: The Series (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a plot to kill the president of the USA an agent with lost memories tries to recover his life and memories. Others use him to cover up some dirty business involving high ranking officials from the CIA and the White House.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, tense, fast
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Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Valley of the Wolves: Palestine (2011)
Plot Summary:
After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team led by Polat Alemdar (Necati Şaşmaz) travels to West Bank in Palestine, where they launch a campaign against Israeli military personnel in an attempt to track down and eliminate an Israeli general, leader Moşe Ben Eliyezer (Erdal Beşikçioğlu), who is the responsible for the flotilla raid.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Fatwa (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Legends (2014)
Plot Summary:
Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a legendary computer hacker. But when he learns that his life, itself, may be a lie, he faces the demands of his job and a desire to solve the mystery of his identity. And given the choice between the two, Odum doesn't always make the right decision. From the producers of "Homeland," "Legends" is based on Robert Littell's award-winning book.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective, action adventure, gloomy
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Tyrant (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Bassam "Barry" Al Fayeed, the younger son of the dictator of a war-torn nation, ends a self-imposed 20-year exile to return to his homeland, accompanied by his American wife and children, for his nephew's wedding. Barry’s reluctant homecoming leads to a dramatic clash of cultures as he is thrown back into the familial and national politics of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic, political, dramatic, political drama
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Cypher (2021)
Plot Summary:
Will Scott, one of the FBI's leading crypto-analysts is hired to crack a heavily coded document. He soon discovers it's a hit list, putting him in the cross-hairs of the bad guys who want it back. Will must navigate the murky waters of loyalty and betrayal amongst an underground ring of hackers, hit men, and FBI agents - all as the clock ticks in pursuit of the latest targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country:
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, brutal, suspense, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful, harsh, visually appealing
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Suskunlar (2012)
Plot Summary:
Suskunlar, is a Turkish television drama series based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of Sleepers.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Bandits Can't Rule the World (2015)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the life of Hizir Cakirbeyli. It has entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fugitives (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, crime drama
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Ezel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, soap opera, captivating, realistic
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Widows (2002)
Plot Summary:
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of stealing the painting.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, stylized
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The Valley of the Wolves (2003)
Plot Summary:
Kurtlar Vadisi was a Turkish television drama which broadcast mainly on Show TV and then transferred to Kanal D, then atv for its last season. It was mostly about an agent named Polat Alemdar who leaked into the mafia after his plastic surgery. The scenario has direct and indirect references to the Turkish politics and political history from a viewpoint of an undercover agent. Kurtlar Vadisi became one of the most successful TV programmes in Turkey and produced a successful feature film named Valley of the Wolves: Iraq.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, captivating, suspense