20 movies like Headlock, ordered by similarity : Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit(2014), The Bourne Legacy(2012), Mile 22(2018), Instakiller(2018), Anna(2019), Clear and Present Danger(1994), Mission: Impossible -- Fallout(2018), The Sum of All Fears(2002), The Bourne Supremacy(2004), Argo(2012), Wind River(2017), Beirut(2018) ...
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|Russia
2014
105 Minutes
Chris Pine Kevin Costner Kenneth Branagh Keira Knightley Gemma Chan Karen David Nonso Anozie Colm Feore
executive cia agent russian fiancée handler cia analyst brooding chilling suspenseful thrilling intense cia office house russia office wall street big city cia global finances spying
Jack Ryan, as a young covert C.I.A. analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Japan
2012
135 Minutes
Jeremy Renner Rachel Weisz Edward Norton Stacy Keach Dennis Boutsikaris Oscar Isaac Joan Allen Albert Finney David Strathairn Scott Glenn Donna Murphy
cia agent spy scientist cia director doctor assassin crafty tense thrilling intense suspenseful cia office city philippines united states new york city alaska espionage assassination on the run
An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
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
cia agent team leader soldier police officer gang member crime boss brooding brutal thrilling suspenseful tense intense southeast asia garage car prison police station vehicle mission cia
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
USA
2018
90 Minutes
Darren Barnet Lizze Broadway Shawn Christian Rick Dano Paris Dylan Tunisha Hubbard Hector Hugo Jared Scott Kelly Sullivan
concerned mother daughter celebrity stalker detective suspect melodramatic brooding suspenseful tense gripping uneasy america office family home suburb coffee shop mother/daughter relationship internet dealing with fame
When a woman's teenage daughter becomes internet famous, she becomes worried about the amount of attention her daughter is receiving. Her fears prove justified when she realizes someone is stalking her daughter.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
2019
119 Minutes
Sasha Luss Luke Evans Cillian Murphy Helen Mirren Lera Abova Sasha Petrov Nikita Pavlenko Anna Krippa Aleksey Maslodudov Eric Godon Ivan Franek
model female assassin crime boss cia agent agent russian brutal gory suspenseful thrilling brooding profound russia criminal underworld catwalk cia office big city paris undercover operations russia
Beneath a woman's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the most feared assassins on the planet.
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, Action, Adventure
USA|China|France|Norway|UK
2018
147 Minutes
Tom Cruise Henry Cavill Ving Rhames Simon Pegg Rebecca Ferguson Sean Harris Angela Bassett Michelle Monaghan Alec Baldwin Vanessa Kirby Wes Bentley
cia agent assassin secret agent spy arms dealer terrorist thrilling suspenseful tense gripping helicopter truck cliff basement base camp italy weapons terrorism undercover operations secret mission
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|Canada
2002
118 Minutes
Ben Affleck Morgan Freeman James Cromwell Liev Schreiber Bridget Moynahan Alan Bates Ciarán Hinds Philip Baker Hall Ron Rifkin Bruce McGill Colm Feore
cia agent president scientist partner secret agent cia analyst thrilling suspenseful gripping intense washington, d.c. baltimore white house government building cia office big city espionage war terrorism nuclear attack
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany
2004
108 Minutes
Matt Damon Franka Potente Brian Cox Julia Stiles Karl Urban Gabriel Mick Joan Allen Marton Csokas Karel Roden Tomas Arana Tom Gallop
cia agent director russian girlfriend technician assassin intricate frenetic suspenseful india berlin naples, italy moscow cia office new york city chase framed cia theft murder
When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
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
UK|Canada|USA
2017
111 Minutes
Jeremy Renner Elizabeth Olsen Gil Birmingham Jon Bernthal Julia Jones Kelsey Asbille James Jordan Martin Sensmeier Ian Bohen Matthew Del Negro Eric Lange
fbi agent police officer native american animal-control officer victim hunter gripping thrilling tense suspenseful wyoming indian reservation indian territory wilderness murder investigation wilderness homicide mystery fbi native americans
A veteran hunter helps an FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2018
109 Minutes
Jon Hamm Rosamund Pike Dean Norris Mark Pellegrino Larry Pine Shea Whigham Alon Moni Aboutboul Idir Chender Jonny Coyne Kate Fleetwood Leïla Bekhti
diplomat cia agent terrorist kidnapper victim intense brooding bleak gripping beirut american embassy kidnapping terrorism rescue mission revenge undercover operations rescue revenge discovery
Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
2017
95 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Sarah Lind Hugh Dillon Jakob Davies Vicellous Shannon Kurt Max Runte Destee Klyne Nikolas Filipovic
outcast agent investigator single mother son senior citizen bleak thrilling disheartening tense suspenseful disturbing american midwest house wasteland warehouse office car global warming outcasts
Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Italy|Hong Kong|Canada
2017
122 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Common Laurence Fishburne Riccardo Scamarcio Ruby Rose Lance Reddick Peter Stormare Bridget Moynahan Franco Nero John Alberto Leguizamo Ian McShane
assassin widower dog enemy crime boss murderer soldier guard criminal thrilling tense suspenseful engaging gripping intense united states italy art museum city catacombs
After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2014
149 Minutes
Ben Affleck Rosamund Pike Neil Patrick Harris Tyler Perry Kim Dickens Patrick Fugit Carrie Coon David Clennon Lisa Banes Missi Pyle Emily Ratajkowski
writer wife suspect police officer journalist police detective brooding dark intense bleak thrilling disheartening carthage house street police station car office disappearance illusions
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Canada|USA
2014
90 Minutes
Christina Cox Tina Ivlev Paula Trickey Rebekah Kennedy Blanca Blanco Matt Corboy Eric Scott Woods Joe Howard Mandy Levin
woman kidnapped child kidnapper mother cult leader intense disturbing brooding thrilling emotional suspenseful cult headquarters brainwashing cult mother/daughter relationship desperation emotional abuse love rescue underdog
A woman spends five years trying to get her brainwashed daughter back from a cult.
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
India
2012
122 Minutes
Vidya Balan Parambrata Chatterjee Nawazuddin Siddiqui Saswata Chatterjee Indraneil Sengupta
young man young woman pregnant woman missing person police officer assassin gripping intense engaging india calcutta, india apartment police station lodge office mystery mission search missing link husband/wife relationship
A pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Kolkata, but everyone she questions denies having ever met him.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Ireland|USA
1979
88 Minutes
Robert Shaw Lee Marvin Linda Evans Maximilian Schell Joe Namath Horst Buchholz Michael Connors Claudio Cassinelli Kristina Nel David Hess Günter Meisner
russian russian general cia agent agent spy kgb agent thrilling engaging suspenseful gripping milan milan, italy train swiss alps plot disaster dangerous mission spying natural disasters terror
Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK
1965
109 Minutes
Michael Caine Nigel Green Guy Doleman Sue Lloyd Gordon Jackson Aubrey Richards Frank Gatliff Thomas Baptiste Oliver MacGreevy Barry Raymond Pauline Winter
spy scientist intelligence officer guard love interest thrilling intense gripping london office apartment train warehouse investigation espionage kidnapping brainwashing corruption deception mystery
In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.