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Plot Summary:
When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Adventure, Action, Thriller, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Our Man in Jamaica (1965)
Plot Summary:
The FBI sends agents to Jamaica to investigate arms smuggling to revolutionaries in Santo Domingo.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, neo noir, suspense, eurospy
Similar in 77%
Doublecross on Costa's Island (1997)
Plot Summary:
Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu) is tracked down at his home halfway around the world. Through revenge and deception, from Sardinia to Beverly Hills, Costa must ready for a final showdown by finding his way through an intricate web of double crosses, while meeting up with old friends and enemies. If Costa wants to survive and save his home, and island, he will have to fight his way out!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 88%
Eye of the Widow (1991)
Plot Summary:
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. The CIA then hires him to find the men behind the attack and take them out. This big budget film with many 'A' stars was barely released. In fact, despite being a U.S. production filmed in Europe, it was never widely screened theatrically in America nor did it receive a video release.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, eurospy
Similar in 82%
The Helicopter Spies (1968)
Plot Summary:
The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, parody, psychotronic, spoof, campy
Similar in 82%
D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999)
Plot Summary:
J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons CIA agent Zack Hamilton who puts together a team of three beautiful women; CIA trainer Kim Taylor; photographer Victoria Carrera; and actress Eva Kirov to go to undercover as fashion models to infiltrate the terrorist organization to find the bomb before it can be used.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, tv series pilot
Similar in 76%
Memorial Day (1998)
Plot Summary:
An embittered satellite expert gets the opportunity for revenge against the USA by aiding terrorists in a plan to destroy the country's military base.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Stella's War (2010)
Plot Summary:
When terrorists acquire a new deadly virus that threatens mankind, a beautiful young CIA agent - Stella - is all that stands in their way. What follows is a true war - secret meetings, chases, shootings and death on the streets of Varna, Bulgaria, the ruins of Athens, the rocky shores of the Azure Coast, in the German country, the Sahara Desert, and under the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, Tunisia, Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, contemplative, visually appealing, cult film
Similar in 76%
Open Fire (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries leads from Kruger seize an entire city, and one man sets out to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 81%
One Spy Too Many (1966)
Plot Summary:
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the meglomanic Alexander (Rip Torn) from committing the world's greatest crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, psychotronic, spoof, spy comedy, campy
Similar in 84%
Bloodfist VII: Manhunt (1995)
Plot Summary:
Don "the Dragon" Wilson is a man pursued. Branded a cop-killer, he must fight simply to stay alive, and to clear his name... with the very police who framed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
Similar in 81%
The Spy with My Face (1965)
Plot Summary:
Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, psychotronic, spoof, eurospy, campy
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CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
Plot Summary:
Movie Info When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up and stop the madman from destabilizing the world in the feature directorial debut of action icon Lorenzo Lamas. CIA Agent Mark Graver (Lamas) was living a quiet life when word came down that a government facility had been breached and a valuable device stolen. Now forced to team with former terrorist Alexa (Kathleen Kinmont) to retrieve the guidance system from international terrorist Franz Kluge (John Savage).
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Licence to Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
James Bond and his American colleague Felix Leiter arrest the drug lord Sanchez who succeeds in escaping and takes revenge on Felix and his wife. Bond knows but just one thing: revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: saga, exciting, controversial, cult classic, slasher, crime drama, grim, action adventure, surprise ending, rough
Similar in 79%
Game of Death (2011)
Plot Summary:
CIA agent Marcus is sent undercover to Detroit to take out an arms dealer and the head of the hedge fund that is financing him. His CIA backup has other plans and turns on him, and it's a fight to survive in a hospital and into the hedge fund vault.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, neo noir, extraordinary
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Crackerjack 3 (2000)
Plot Summary:
A group of retired spies once former enemies, are forced to work together in an attempt to retrieve a neutron bomb stolen by a group of new-wave, high-tech operatives who have supplanted them in the post-Cold War intelligence game.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)
Plot Summary:
Spy Duncan Jax thwarts a cabal of neo-nazis.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: political thriller, perverse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 85%
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 75%
Cabo Blanco (1980)
Plot Summary:
Giff Hoyt , a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, independent film, cult film
Similar in 82%
The Detonator (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, suspense
Similar in 76%
Ballistica (2009)
Plot Summary:
A man has been trained in a deadly form of hand-to-hand combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one of the few Americans who has perfected it, which makes him the CIA's best weapon against International Terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast
Similar in 88%
Overkill (1996)
Plot Summary:
American Police officer Jack Hazard heads for South America after being ordered to take time off by his boss after a raid goes bad. Once there, however, he finds himself caught up with a stranger wanted by the government, and soon ends up in prison. He and his unwanted companion escape, and now Jack must try to get back to safety while being hunted down by an iron-fisted tyrant.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Freefall (1994)
Plot Summary:
New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, cliffhanger, suspense, independent film
Similar in 76%
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Plot Summary:
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 371000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, sexy, heroic, stylized, suspense, romantic, intense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
Running Red (1999)
Plot Summary:
Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from his days as a Russkie hired gun orders him to kill some people or watch his new family die. It looks like Gregori doesn't have much of a choice, because he's grown fond of having Angie Everhart for a wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Storm Catcher (1999)
Plot Summary:
A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered several men and stolen the plane. Then try to murder his wife and take his daughter prisoner. Threatening to kill his daughter if he doesn't help, he appears trapped. However, his best friend who is the plane's computer specialist has a few tricks up his sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, independent film, bleak, fast
Similar in 88%
Dr. No (1962)
Plot Summary:
In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, stylized, action packed, saga, exciting, sexy, clever, realistic, suspenseful, witty
Similar in 82%
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 521000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, clever, entertaining, action adventure, stylized, action packed
Similar in 81%
CIA Code Name: Alexa (1992)
Plot Summary:
A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
Similar in 84%
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Plot Summary:
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 now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 462000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, clever, action thriller, entertaining, action packed, tense, saga, cerebral
Similar in 81%
Unmasking the Idol (1986)
Plot Summary:
Duncan Jax must stop the evil terrorist Scarlet Leader from acquiring nuclear bombs that could start WW3. Together with the trusty baboon, Boon, he takes on the almost impossible mission! He must steal the gold that Scarlet leader plans to use to purchase the weapons of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious