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Plot Summary:
Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake diving resort by the Red Sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, non-linear, brutal, powerful
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We Are the Bus People (1979)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Hussein Kamal.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: islamic
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Prisoners of War (2009)
Plot Summary:
TJFF presents the pilot episode of the award-winning Israeli series that inspired the American hit, Homeland. Set in 2008, this first episode focuses on two Israeli soldiers being released after 17 years of captivity in Lebanon. It powerfully explores their initial adjustment to civilian life, as well as the impact of their release on their families who are now trying to prepare for being reunited. Featuring a terrific cast that includes Mili Avital (Noodle) and Yael Abecassis (Live and Become).
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Man Standing Next (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In the midst of reign of fear, a former KCIA director, PARK Yong-gak who knows all about the government’s obscure operations, exiles to the U.S. where the investigation of ‘Koreagate’ is underway. As the tension escalates, the stifling political maneuvering by the all second-in-command’s unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending
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False Flag (2015)
Plot Summary:
The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary Israeli citizens who discover one morning via the media that they are the principal suspects of a high-profile kidnapping and are implicated as culprits in the kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, political
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The Patriots (1994)
Plot Summary:
Ariel, un jeune Juif français, décide de quitter sa famille pour partir en Israël et devenir un agent du Mossad, les services secrets israéliens. En participant à des missions à Paris, Tel Aviv et Washington, il sera initié à l'art délicat de la manipulation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Raid on Entebbe (1976)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: political, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Dirty Hearts (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated - by their own countrymen - causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by the wife of one of the fanatics dedicated to preach Japanese victory. Little by little, she watches her husband, a hard-working immigrant, become an assassin and their love story fade away.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, disturbing, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Malta
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, inspirational, social, action adventure, surprise ending, independent film, tension
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Die Akte General (2016)
Plot Summary:
Its 1959. German Public Prosecutor Bauer is convinced he has found the long sought Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. This tense drama shows his struggle to have him brought to justice against the power jielded by old Nazi functionaries in the West German power structure and suspicions of being an East German spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Operation Sunflower (2014)
Plot Summary:
Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
Plot Summary:
It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from Argentina, written by a man who is certain that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead, and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad, the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason — yet committing treason is the only way Bauer can serve his country.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, social, unusual plot structure
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The Spy (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: factual, serious, realistic, exciting, historical drama, period piece, interesting
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Miral (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Israel, Italy, India, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, stylized, inspirational, breathtaking, serious, gloomy, independent film
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Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
Plot Summary:
Canadian Lt. General Romeo Dallaire was the military commander of the UN mission in Rwanda and this movie is personal and, all too true, story of his time there during the genocide of 1994. It is not quite as moving as the earlier Hotel Rwanda and is less geared to drama and emotional manipulation, but it is still grim and upsetting.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, realistic, sad, sincere, political
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The Operative (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspense, powerful
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Sword of Gideon (1986)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: action thriller, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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United 93 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, emotional, controversial, tense, political, rough, serious, disturbing, bleak
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Beirut (2018)
Plot Summary:
A former U. S. diplomat returns to service in order to save a former colleague in Beirut.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: political, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, social, action thriller, powerful, independent film, political drama
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The Debt (2010)
Plot Summary:
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Israel
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, exciting, talky, realistic, serious, psychological thriller, political
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Hotel Mumbai (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai about the Mumbai attacks in 2008 at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK, Singapore
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, factual, sad, tense, psychological thriller, sexy, political, social
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
Plot Summary:
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 157000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Malta, Morocco
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: intense, realistic, suspenseful, tense, factual, political, anamorphic, historical drama, motivational, sad
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 315000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, political, realistic, harsh, talky, controversial, brutal, motivational
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Bridge of Spies (2015)
Plot Summary:
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 324000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, dramatic, tricky, intense, historical drama, serious, entertaining, period piece, suspenseful
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Operation Finale (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: period piece, ambiguous ending, tense, historical drama, inspirational, art house, costume drama, powerful, thought provoking, suspense
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Thirteen Days (2000)
Plot Summary:
Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, his staff and advisors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, political, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, realistic, educational, witty, serious
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All the President's Men (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party, and eventually into the White House itself.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: political thriller, political, cerebral, realistic, serious, suspense, factual, tense, captivating, neo noir
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22 July (2018)
Plot Summary:
In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utöya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story will focus on the survivors of the attacks, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, brutal, dramatic, disturbing, novela, action thriller, thrilling, disaster movie
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Munich (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 236000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: political, suspenseful, intense, tense, suspense, brutal, rough, political thriller, bleak, realistic
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Plot Summary:
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: political, factual, suspense, harsh, psychological, brutal, bloody, rough, suspenseful, serious
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Plot Summary:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual, serious, suspenseful, rough, political thriller, emotional