Best tv shows like The Lieutenant
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Plot Summary:
La Teniente takes a cinematic approach to scripted TV, using locations throughout Mexico and top Spanish-language TV actors as it depicts the adventures of a Special Operations unit of the Mexican Navy. Centering on Mexican Naval graduate Lieutenant Roberta Ballesteros (María Fernanda Yepes), the series shows the challenges facing her immediate and emotional entry into the elite Special Operations unit after a violent tragedy occurs to the group. The series follows her assimilation into the unit, which is filled with drama, action, love triangles, heroes and family.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, telenovela
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D.P. (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young private’s assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dark
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Paramedics (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three new paramedics face the challenge of work in the biggest city of the world, full of problems, different situations and a bunch of workmates that could make their life even worst.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Action
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mercury (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action
Country: Egypt
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Special Unit (2007)
Plot Summary:
GSG 9 is a German TV-series about the special unit GSG 9 der Bundespolizei of the German Federal Police. It premièred in the Spring of 2007. Its original title, GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben, is a pun on the word Einsatz. Einsatz can be translated as "mission, stake, bet, dedication", depending on the context. Thus, it can be translated as, GSG 9 - Their Mission Is Their Life or GSG 9 - They Put Their Lives at Stake.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Action
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Los Nuestros (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two children are imprisoned by the jihadists and hidden in a village while terrorists prepare the conditions for transfer them to the Algerian desert. A group of Spanish Special Forces from the Army is sent to rescue them. To success in the mission the captain and the sniper have put aside their differences, blame and resentment and collaborate together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Wolf (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tasked with risky missions across Turkey, members of a special-operations police unit confront danger and tragedy both on the field and at home.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
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Queen's Messenger (2001)
Plot Summary:
By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the elite Queen's Messenger corps, Captain Strong must pledge to protect his diplomatic cargo with his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Action
Country: Bulgaria, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, informative
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Rogue Warfare: The Hunt (2019)
Plot Summary:
The next installment of the Rogue Warfare Trilogy. Daniel has been captured and it is up to the TEAM to find him before it is to late.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Glory of the Special Forces (2022)
Plot Summary:
Yan Poyue, a high school student who comes from a family of soldiers. He forgoes the university entrance examinations and joins the armed police force in order to prove his worth to his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Attack on Titan: Counter Rockets (2015)
Plot Summary:
During the Great Titan War, a race of giants called Titans nearly wiped out humanity. The survivors built three concentric walls tall enough to keep the Titans out, but a century into that era of peace, the Colossal Titan suddenly appeared and kicked a hole through the Outer Wall, allowing other Titans to surge through. Forced to retreat behind the Middle Wall, humanity begins planning its retaliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 34 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, anime, entertaining
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The Wolf Pack (2019)
Plot Summary:
"The Wolf Pack" are on a mission to reach Kafr Cenneh. On the way there the 9 commandos must face the enemy which outnumbers them by far.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Drawing Sword (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chen Geng is the commander of the 386th brigade, part of the 129th division of the Eighth Route Army. Subordinate to Chen is Li Yun Long, who leads his regiment for the fight against the Japanese invaders. Although rash and rough in personality, Li Yun Long possesses brilliant military skills, which he carries with him from the war against the Japanese to the Chinese Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Soul of Hero (2019)
Plot Summary:
A soldier will have a mission of rescuing his partner kidnapped in the Colombian jungle although he will miss a dating with a beautiful girl that is his partner's sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Operación Pacífico (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of Captain Amalia Ortega, leader of a secret unit, whose mission is to capture the most wanted Mexican drug trafficker, putting both her profession and family's life at risk.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Last Cop (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1985, when detective Kyogoku Kosuke (Karasawa Toshiaki) was hunting down some criminals, he suddenly found himself in the center of an explosion and ended up falling into a coma. In 2015, after 30 years Kosuke wakes up and has a lot to catch up, new values, technology, family, work, everything he has missed. Back to the Criminal Division, Kosuke and his new partner Ryota (Kubota Masataka) are entrusted with classified security data that aims to a terrorist group Schiesser.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Shanghai Bund (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shanghai Bund is a 2007 Chinese television series and a remake of the 1980 Hong Kong television series The Bund produced by TVB. Directed by Gao Xixi, the series starred Huang Xiaoming, Betty Sun, Li Xuejian and Huang Haibo in the lead roles.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Military Prosecutor Doberman (2022)
Plot Summary:
Do Bae-man became military prosecutor only to make more money and be successful. On the other hand, Cha Woo-in, recently joining Bae-man’s team, became one for her revenge. As these two different purposes shows, the two have very different backgrounds and personalities. However, as they work on the same case, Bae-man and Woo-on help each other and even grow together as fine military prosecutors.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Blackout (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a nuclear plant is sabotaged, the power grid in Belgium crashes. Prime Minister Annemie Hillebrand is forced to prolong the blackout, otherwise her daughter -who has been kidnapped- will die. Can Michael Dendoncker of the counter terrorism unit, rescue the girl in a country that's off the grid.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blind War (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Warrior Baek Dong Soo (2011)
Plot Summary:
Warrior Baek Dong-soo is a 2011 South Korean fusion historical/action television series starring Ji Chang-wook, Yoo Seung-ho, Yoon So-yi, Shin Hyun-bin, Choi Min-soo and Jun Kwang-ryul. It aired on SBS from July 4 to October 10, 2011 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 29 episodes. Based on the 2010 comic Honorable Baek Dong-soo by Lee Jae-heon, the series is about how Joseon historical figure Baek Dong-soo grew to become a swordsman and folk hero. Baek was one of the three authors of Muyedobotongji, a pivotal martial arts work commissioned by King Jeongjo. Set against the backdrop of political maneuverings in Joseon between different factions, namely those led by King Jeongjo, by the Qing ambassador, by the Japanese swordsman Kenzo, and the assassin's guild Heuksa Chorong, at its core the series is a coming-of-age drama about brotherhood, friendship, loyalty and honor.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, sageuk, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, scenic
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I Am Vengeance: Retaliation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A former special-forces soldier is given the opportunity to bring the man who betrayed his team on their final mission in Eastern Europe several years ago - to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Renegaded Archangel (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mikhael is a sergeant in charge of BOPE, always on dangerous missions in Rio de Janeiro. But after getting involved in a controversial operation that culminated to a slaughter, he is transferred to a police unit at the state countryside.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Special Squad (2002)
Plot Summary:
Spetsnaz is a 2002 Russian TV miniseries directed by Andrei Malyukov.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Action, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Paskal: The Movie (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true events of Lieutenant Commander Arman Anwar of PASKAL, an elite unit in the Royal Malaysian Navy, and his team's mission to rescue the MV Bunga Laurel, a tanker which was hijacked by Somalian Pirates in 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, inspirational, patriotic
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Treadstone (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Treadstone project, having created super spy Jason Bourne, turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, intense, action adventure
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Spitfire Over Berlin (2022)
Plot Summary:
August 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life and death mission over Berlin in his unarmed Spitfire to obtain photographic evidence and save the lives of 1200 men.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Convoy PQ-17 (2004)
Plot Summary:
"PQ-17 was the code name for an Allied Second World War convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In July 1942, the Arctic convoys suffered a significant defeat when Convoy PQ-17 lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships during a series of heavy enemy daylight attacks which lasted a week.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 416 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Misja Afganistan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Story about soldiers of the II platoon of the first company of the mechanized infantry from Wedrzyn, under the command of a junior officer - lieutenant Pawel Konaszewicz.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Kamen Rider #4 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kamen Rider 4 is a web series which was released as an accompanying special to the film Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3. It introduced a new rider, Kamen Rider 4, who is the fourth Kamen Rider cyborg created by Shocker after Kamen Riders 1, 2, and 3. The plot goes around a time loop created by the Shocker that resets whenever someone dies, but whenever the loop resets Shocker itself somehow grows stronger and stronger. Thus, it is up to the Riders to decide whether to keep on fighting a useless battle... Or end the loops for good by sacrificing one of their own.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful
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Kamen Rider Ghost: Legendary! Riders' Souls! (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious boy named Frey steals Ghost and Specter's Eyecons, they must call upon the powers of past Kamen Riders to defeat him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful