20 movies like Argo, ordered by similarity : The Negotiator(1998), Captain Phillips(2013), 7 Days in Entebbe(2018), Buried(2010), The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale(2015), Clear and Present Danger(1994), Anthropoid(2016), Headlock(2019), Mile 22(2018), The Salesman(2016), The Sweetheart(2018), The Old Man & the Gun(2018) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA|UK
2012
120 Minutes
Ben Affleck Bryan Cranston Alan Arkin John Goodman Victor Garber Tate Donovan Clea DuVall Scoot McNairy Rory Cochrane Christopher Denham Kerry Bishé
cia agent specialist hostage revolutionary ambassador wife brutal tense suspenseful thrilling tehran, iran cia office canada united states airplane protest iran hostage crisis on the run political intrigue schemes
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Germany|USA
1998
138 Minutes
Samuel L. Jackson Kevin Spacey David Morse Ron Rifkin John Spencer J.T. Walsh Regina Taylor Siobhan Fallon Hogan Paul Giamatti
negotiator police officer hostage con artist wife embezzler tense gripping thrilling intense chicago police station house office building street big city hostage situation embezzlement framed for murder police corruption
In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA
2013
133 Minutes
Tom Hanks Catherine Keener Barkhad Abdi Barkhad Abdirahman Faysal Ahmed Mahat M. Ali Michael Chernus Corey Johnson Max Martini Chris Mulkey Yul Vazquez
navy seal captain wife seaman hostage gunman dark emotional tense intense somalia coast cargo ship boat airport lifeboat hijacking kidnapping rescue terrorism
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
UK|USA|France|Malta
2018
107 Minutes
Daniel Brühl Rosamund Pike Eddie Marsan Lior Ashkenazi Denis Menochet Ben Schnetzer Nonso Anozie Angel Bonanni Mark Ivanir Andrea Deck Peter Sullivan
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Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|UK|USA|France
2010
94 Minutes
truck driver terrorist man iraqi insurgent hostage suspenseful bleak shocking tense thrilling underground iraq coffin kidnapping terrorism iraq war buried alive race against time desperation
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Drama, History, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
South Korea
2015
139 Minutes
Min-sik Choi Man-sik Jeong Sang-ho Kim Eun-woo Lee Jung Suk Won Ren Ôsugi Hyun Seung-min Yoo-Bin Sung
hunter japanese man korean person tiger tense suspenseful sad moving shocking patriotic passionate korea hunting occupation challenge adventure resilience adventure escape pursuit
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese, an old and experienced hunter is challenged by the hunt of the last tiger.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|Mexico
1994
141 Minutes
Harrison Ford Willem Dafoe Anne Archer Joaquim de Almeida Henry Czerny Harris Yulin Donald Moffat Miguel Sandoval Benjamin Bratt Raymond Cruz Dean Jones
cia agent secret agent drug lord president admiral daughter intense patriotic thrilling suspenseful washington, d.c. south america colombia government offices jungle boat drug cartel assassination conspiracy cia
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
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
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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.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|United Arab Emirates
2019
102 Minutes
Dianna Agron Mark Polish Justin Bartha Patrick Bauchau Andy Garcia James Frain Bar Paly Johnny Pemberton
cia agent wife former secret agent ex-cia agent doctor mother thrilling suspenseful intricate brooding gripping tense home cia office america truth inside job cia secret mission protection
A CIA agent is sent on a mission and ends up in a coma. CIA want to extract intel from his brain a lethal way but his wife says no. His comatose mind is active. She decides to investigate.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|China|Colombia
2018
95 Minutes
Mark Wahlberg Lauren Cohan Iko Uwais John Malkovich Ronda Rousey Carlo Alban Natasha Goubskaya Chae Rin Lee Sam Medina Keith Arthur Bolden Jenique Hendrix
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A small team of elite American intelligence officers, part of a top-secret tactical command unit, try to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of Indonesia.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Iran|France
2016
125 Minutes
Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti Babak Karimi Farid Sajjadi Hosseini Mina Sadati Maral Bani Adam Mehdi Kooshki Emad Emami Shirin Aghakashi Mojtaba Pirzadeh Sahra Asadollahe
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While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
2018
100 Minutes
Jessalyn Gilsig Jon Cor Hannah Vandenbygaart Scott Gibson Taveeta Szymanowicz
young woman mother father mother's boyfriend psychopath intense suspenseful thrilling disturbing melodramatic brooding house canada hospital car united states car accident divorce new love false identity
Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, an amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK
2018
93 Minutes
Robert Redford Casey Affleck Sissy Spacek Danny Glover Tom Waits Tika Sumpter Ari Elizabeth Johnson Teagan Johnson Gene Jones John David Washington Barlow Jacobs
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Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2016
98 Minutes
George Clooney Julia Roberts Jack O'Connell Dominic West Caitriona Balfe Giancarlo Esposito Christopher Denham Lenny Venito Chris Bauer Dennis Boutsikaris Emily Meade
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Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes them and their crew as hostage.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1988
131 Minutes
Bruce Willis Alan Rickman Bonnie Bedelia Reginald VelJohnson Alexander Godunov Paul Gleason William Atherton Hart Bochner
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An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Action
2015
100 Minutes
Lambert Wilson Guillaume Gouix Franck Gastambide François Arnaud Laurent Lucas Gabrielle Lazure Pierre Lebeau Hedi Rian Virginie Ledoyen
gang members hostage child young woman gang leader bleak brash brutal chilling confident dark frenetic frightening gripping intense melodramatic shocking suspenseful tense thrilling
After a bank job goes wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage.
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2011
101 Minutes
Matthew McConaughey Emile Hirsch Juno Temple Gina Gershon Thomas Haden Church Marc Macaulay Gregory C. Bachaud Charley Vance
drug dealer killer mother police officer thrilling brooding brutal gory suspenseful profound united states home life insurance debt hired killers murder danger revenge rivalry escape
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2016
90 Minutes
Jacob Latimore Seychelle Gabriel Sasheer Zamata Storm Reid Cameron Esposito Dulé Hill Tyga Stacey Dash
orphan magician sister kidnapper kidnapped child drug dealer tense suspenseful thrilling united states drugs kidnapping death of mother survival growing up discovery escape rescue revenge 2010s
A young street magician (Jacob Latimore) is left to care for his little sister after their parents' passing, and turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets in... See full summary »
Drama, History, War
Australia|Singapore
2013
84 Minutes
Khan Chittenden Morning Tzu-Yi Mo Robert Menzies Edwina Wren
fighter pilot guerrilla fighter wife intense suspenseful tense gripping gutsy powerful singapore world war iii evading capture survival unlikely allies unlikely friendship on the run escape quest 1940s
Singapore, February 1942. An Australian fighter pilot is shot down over the jungle and must find his way back to Allied lines, through Japanese-held territory.
Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2016
116 Minutes
Chris Pine Casey Affleck Ben Foster Holliday Grainger John Ortiz Kyle Gallner John Magaro Beau Knapp Eric Bana Graham McTavish Abraham Benrubi
sailor engineer coast guard officer survivor crew member rescue worker brooding emotional intense boat ocean massachusetts office car street storm wreckage danger survival coast guard
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA|Germany|India
2015
141 Minutes
Tom Hanks Mark Rylance Alan Alda Amy Ryan Eve Hewson Peter McRobbie Billy Magnussen Austin Stowell Domenick Lombardozzi Michael Gaston Sebastian Koch
pilot spy lawyer cia agent airy brooding dark somber soviet union prison berlin cold war soviet union espionage prisoners of war escape quest rescue 20th century
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.