Best movies like Eagle Eye
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Plot Summary:
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, intense, psychological thriller, futuristic, action thriller, action packed, thought provoking, clever
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Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth - then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability of the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: clever, tense, exciting, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic, intellectual, political thriller, mockbuster
Similar in 89%
Whiteout (2009)
Plot Summary:
The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, scenic, intense, tense, detective, realistic, harsh
Similar in 82%
Eraser (1996)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, action packed, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, entertaining, intense, clever
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Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Plot Summary:
Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer, Owen Davian. Hunt must try to protect his girlfriend while working with his new team to complete the mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 385000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, China, Italy
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, action packed, action thriller, tense, entertaining, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
The Sentinel (2006)
Plot Summary:
A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a relentless FBI agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, suspenseful, intense, rough, action packed, clever, slasher, action thriller, action drama
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Executive Decision (1996)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, intense, anamorphic, cult classic, action thriller
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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
Similar in 80%
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
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The Kingdom (2007)
Plot Summary:
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, action packed, intense, rough, serious, political
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Seeking Justice (2011)
Plot Summary:
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, intense, tense, enigmatic, serious, rough, realistic, thought provoking, captivating
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The Bourne Identity (2002)
Plot Summary:
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy – but who does he work for?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 569000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: political thriller, intense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, psychological thriller, action packed, saga, action adventure
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Abduction (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, teen, suspense, romantic, serious, entertaining, absurd, intense, psychological thriller
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WarGames (1983)
Plot Summary:
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 confrontation of global proportions! Together with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: clever, futuristic, tense, cyber, suspenseful, political, suspense, psychological, inspirational, philosophical
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Enemy of the State (1998)
Plot Summary:
Hotshot Washington lawyer, Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security agent sets out to recover the tape – and destroy Dean.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 256000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, tense, political thriller, suspenseful, political, exciting, sexy, entertaining, action thriller
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The Net (1995)
Plot Summary:
Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she inadvertently becomes involved in a conspiracy that will soon turn her life upside down. While on vacation in Mexico, her purse is stolen. She soon finds that people and events may not be what they seem as she becomes the target of an assassination. Her vacation is ruined. She gets a new passport at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico but it has the wrong name, Ruth Marx. When she returns to the U.S. to sort things out, she discovers that Ruth Marx has an unsavory past and a lengthy police record. To make matters worse, another person has assumed her real identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, tense, psychological, serious, cyber, clever, breathtaking
Similar in 82%
Intelligence (2014)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on a high-tech intelligence operative who is enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain, and the director of the elite government cyber-security agency who supports him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, detective, stylized
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Self/less (2015)
Plot Summary:
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, philosophical, suspenseful, suspense, tricky, thought provoking, scary, psychological thriller, clever
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Paycheck (2003)
Plot Summary:
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 112000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, entertaining, suspense, tech noir, exciting, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful, stylized, cyber
Similar in 86%
Safe House (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 233000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense, tense, serious, realistic, clever, action packed, action thriller
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The Fugitive (1993)
Plot Summary:
Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until Richard is captured. As Richard leads the team through a series of intricate chases, he discovers the secrets behind his wife's death and struggles to expose the killer before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, detective, neo noir, exciting, tense, entertaining, intense, rough, serious
Similar in 77%
Jason Bourne (2016)
Plot Summary:
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 239000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Spain, Japan, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, captivating, intense, action adventure, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, action thriller, political
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The Accountant (2016)
Plot Summary:
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, intense, clever, action thriller, crime thriller, neo noir, psychological
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The International (2009)
Plot Summary:
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: clever, exciting, suspenseful, sexy, enigmatic, suspense, intense, tricky, serious, action packed
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense, suspense, entertaining, action adventure, action thriller, clever, political thriller
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I, Robot (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 567000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, suspense, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, clever, entertaining, action packed, suspenseful
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Deja Vu (2006)
Plot Summary:
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 324000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tricky, twisted, suspense, confusing, psychological thriller, clever, surprise ending, mindfuck
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Unknown (2011)
Plot Summary:
An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 268000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, mind bending, psychological, captivating, serious, exciting
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Transcendence (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, thought provoking, philosophical, cerebral, exciting, tricky, suspenseful, tense, emotional, cyber
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Surrogates (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, cyber, exciting, entertaining, cerebral, action packed, psychological thriller
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Minority Report (2002)
Plot Summary:
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 576000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, neo noir, cerebral, exciting, tense, mind bending, tech noir, clever, suspenseful