20 movies like Executive Action, ordered by similarity : Parkland(2013), Anthropoid(2016), Tyrannosaur(2011), Dragon(2011), The Departed(2006), Baahubali: The Beginning(2015), The Chase(1966), High Season for Spies(1966), Chappaquiddick(2017), The Debt(2010), Kill the Messenger(2014), Galveston(2018) ...
Drama
USA
1973
91 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Robert Ryan Will Geer Gil Green John Anderson Paul Carr Colby Chester Ed Lauter Walter Brooke Sidney Clute Deanna Darrin
ex-cia agent secret service agent oil baron conservative mercenary gunman tense chilling dark brooding texas dallas desert mansion parking garage assassination plot john f. kennedy conspiracy new world order secret mission
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Drama, History
USA
2013
94 Minutes
James Badge Dale Zac Efron Marcia Gay Harden Billy Bob Thornton Jacki Weaver Paul Giamatti Ron Livingston Tom Welling Jackie Earle Haley Colin Hanks Jeremy Strong
nurse doctor secret service agent fbi agent assassin brother family john f. kennedy jacqueline kennedy lyndon baines johnson brooding chilling emotional frenetic gripping intense intricate melancholy patriotic powerful
A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Mystery & Thriller, War, Drama, History
Czech Republic|UK|USA|France
2016
120 Minutes
Cillian Murphy Jamie Dornan Charlotte Le Bon Anna Geislerová Toby Jones Harry Lloyd Alena Mihulová Bill Milner Pavel Reznícek Jirí Simek Sam Keeley
soldier resistance fighter agent nazi commandant assassin gripping tense intense thrilling suspenseful czechoslovakia world war ii assassination plot nazi occupation resistance fighters secret plans quest pursuit 1940s
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
Drama
UK
2011
91 Minutes
Peter Mullan Olivia Colman Eddie Marsan Ned Dennehy Sally Carman Samuel Bottomley Paul Popplewell Sian Breckin Paul Conway Julia Mallam
man charity worker bleak brutal chilling dark disturbing frenetic gutsy gripping intense intricate united kingdom self-destruction redemption anger turmoil relationships secrets challenge
Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.
Drama, Action
USA|Sweden|Norway
2011
114 Minutes
Donnie Yen Takeshi Kaneshiro Wei Tang Jia-Min Li Wei Zheng Kang Yu Chun-Yuan Wang Zhusheng Yin
chinese man man demon killer investigator wife thrilling suspenseful intense gory brooding patriotic china shop village murder robbery survival past crimes secret
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA|Hong Kong
2006
152 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon Jack Nicholson Mark Wahlberg Martin Sheen Ray Winstone Vera Farmiga Alec Baldwin James Badge Dale David O'Hara Mark Rolston
mobster criminal cop informant girlfriend wife dark intense gritty tense suspenseful frightening boston police station bar vehicle city apartment secret hideout crime mafia
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Adventure, Drama, Action
India
2015
159 Minutes
Prabhas Rana Daggubati Anushka Shetty Tamannaah Sathyaraj Nassar Ramya Krishnan Subbaraju Adivi Sesh
young man prince mother brother mentor lover intense powerful fascinating confident passionate emotional india kingdom village town house mansion good vs. evil family ties
In ancient India, an adventurous and daring man becomes involved in a decades-old feud between two warring peoples.
Drama
USA
1966
135 Minutes
Marlon Brando Jane Fonda Robert Redford E.G. Marshall Angie Dickinson Janice Rule Miriam Hopkins Martha Hyer Richard Bradford Robert Duvall James Fox
sheriff businessman fugitive wife lackey son tense dark brutal striking thrilling melodramatic texas small town prison swamp on the run home american south prison break
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
Crime, Comedy, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|Portugal|West Germany
1966
89 Minutes
Antonio Vilar Letícia Román Peter Van Eyck Américo Coimbra Mikaela Artur Semedo Klausjürgen Wussow Corny Collins Ricardo Rubinstein José Cardoso Ricardo Valle
professor inventor kidnapper gangster agent secret agent engaging gripping suspenseful thrilling intense lisbon, portugal kidnapping secret secret formula fighting dangerous mission adventure rivalry pursuit
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA|Sweden
2017
101 Minutes
Jason Clarke Kate Mara Ed Helms Bruce Dern Jim Gaffigan Olivia Thirlby Clancy Brown Taylor Nichols Andria Blackman Tamara Hickey Victor Warren
man politician victim coworker campaign manager investigator tense uneasy dark disturbing shocking massachusetts car house ocean study bridge true crime historical events political campaign
Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK|Hungary|Israel
2010
112 Minutes
Helen Mirren Sam Worthington Tom Wilkinson Ciarán Hinds Jessica Chastain Marton Csokas Jesper Christensen Romi Aboulafia
agent partner young woman nazi elderly person suspenseful engaging ukraine israel berlin assassination secret mission reputation moral dilemma discovery revenge 2000s
In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2014
112 Minutes
Jeremy Renner Rosemarie DeWitt Ray Liotta Tim Blake Nelson Barry Pepper Oliver Platt Michael Sheen Paz Vega Michael Kenneth Williams Mary Elizabeth Winstead Andy Garcia
journalist cia analyst drug dealer crack addict nicaraguan lawyer brooding chilling dark washington, d.c. courtroom newsroom apartment car street drugs cia secrets danger journalism
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contras/freedom fighters in Nicaragua.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2018
91 Minutes
Ben Foster Elle Fanning Lili Reinhart María Valverde Beau Bridges Adepero Oduye Robert Aramayo Jamel Chambers
mob enforcer mob boss hit man assassin captive runner brash brooding brutal emotional dark raw galveston, texas house car hotel pool beach on the run mob
After escaping a set up, a dying hitman returns to his hometown of Galveston where he plans his revenge.
Crime, Drama
UK
1960
98 Minutes
Stanley Baker John Crawford Donald Pleasence Billie Whitelaw
inspector escaped convict murderer detective gang leader criminal gripping thrilling suspenseful tense intense engaging manchester, england jailbreak on the run mission criminals murder investigation money discovery
In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
Drama
South Korea
2018
141 Minutes
Jeong-min Hwang Sung-min Lee Cho Jin-Woong Ju Ji-hoon
spy broker government official wife businessman kim jong-il thrilling gripping intense suspenseful tense engaging north korea south korea espionage government secrets intelligence nuclear weapons korean relations mission
In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.
Comedy, Drama
Australia
2017
84 Minutes
Georgia Chara Christopher Kirby Holly Brisley Talin Argon Michela Carattini Hayley Hughes Michael Budd Johnny Lahoud
man partygoer friend gangster drug dealer amusing tense brooding hilarious unrestrained house party cemetery bar office relationships self-destruction self-discovery party lifestyle changes
A touching comedy drama about 3 friends edging towards their mid thirties who, in an attempt to hang on to their carefree youth,embark on an attempt to write themselves into the history books by trying to host the world's longest house party.
Comedy, Action, Crime, Drama
India
1999
174 Minutes
Shah Rukh Khan Twinkle Khanna Rakhee Amrish Puri Prem Chopra Deepak Tijori Johnny Lever Deepshika Neeraj Vora
detective agent chief minister assassin henchman love interest amusing hilarious fascinating gripping india city house bungalow restaurant street mistaken identity assassination attempt assassination plot confusion
A small time detective is mistaken as a CBI agent and gets embroiled in a deadly mission to save the Chief Minister from an assassination attempt.
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action, Western
USA
2016
97 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Chris Pine Ben Foster Gil Birmingham Marin Ireland Katy Mixon Dale Dickey Kevin Rankin
divorce brother son ex-convict banker texas ranger brooding raw intense texas house bank casino car office brother relationship foreclosure desperation search family
A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
Sports & Fitness, Action, Drama, History
2002
93 Minutes
Jet Li Tony Leung Maggie Cheung Donnie Yen Chen Daoming Zhang Ziyi Liu Zhongyuan Tianyong Zheng
king warrior assassin gripping incredible spectacular rousing china palace desert love assassination betrayal revenge quest adventure rivalry 2nd century b.c.
Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) who tried to kill the emperor of China.
Western, Drama
USA
2010
110 Minutes
Joel Coen Jeff Bridges Matt Damon Josh Brolin Barry Pepper Hailee Steinfeld Dakin Matthews Jarlath Conroy Paul Rae Elizabeth Marvel Roy Lee Jones
cowboy gunslinger assassin marshal dense gritty gripping texas desert arkansas absence alcoholism death family showdown revenge quest pursuit 1900s
A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
Drama
USA
1942
71 Minutes
John Garfield Nancy Coleman Raymond Massey Moroni Olsen Lee Patrick
agent doctor leader spy henchman chilling disturbing intense patriotic grand central station ambulance hospital house delicatessen espionage kidnapping impersonation torture deception romance
Dr. Michael Lewis treats Jane, a mysterious woman claiming to be a British secret agent on the run from German spies. Ultimately convinced, Michael helps Jane escape and with her attempts ... See full summary »