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1	The Hunt for Red October (1990) more movies like this directed by John McTiernan featuring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill The first of several films based on Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" technothrillers, Hunt for Red October stars Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Ryan and Sean Connery as Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius. Ramius sets the plot in motion when he murders his political adviser, burns his orders, and steers his sub Red October towards American ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
2	The Lives of Others (2007) more movies like this directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck featuring Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme A man who has devoted his life to ferreting out "dangerous" characters is thrown into a quandary when he investigates a man who poses no threat in this drama, the first feature from German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. It's 1984, and Capt. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) is an agent of the Stasi, the East German Secret Police. Weisler ... see all copies from $14.50! new only from $16.22!
3	Patriot Games (1992) more movies like this directed by Phillip Noyce featuring Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of a maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After seemingly neutralizing the villains, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.91!
4	The Day of the Jackal (1973) more movies like this directed by Fred Zinnemann featuring Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Terry Alexander In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox). The police learn of the plot from an ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $7.21!
5	Thirteen Days (2000) more movies like this directed by Roger Donaldson featuring Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Michael Fairman Director Roger Donaldson teams up with star Kevin Costner for another political thriller (after their 1987 pairing, No Way Out), only this time with a film based on the actual events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, taking place during the titular thirteen days wherein the U.S. and the Soviet Union nearly engaged in full-scale nuclear ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.50!
6	The Pelican Brief (1993) more movies like this directed by Alan J. Pakula featuring Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), served as Callahan's mentor. When Callahan shares ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99!
7	Shooter (2007) more movies like this directed by Antoine Fuqua featuring Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas A top Marine sniper who previously abandoned the military after a routine mission gave way to tragedy is double-crossed by the government after reluctantly being pressured back into service in Training Day director Antoine Fuqua's adaptation of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact. There was a time when Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) was the ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $13.99!
8	Enemy of the State (1998) more movies like this directed by Tony Scott featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King The action producing-directing team of Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott is back with another thrill-a-minute ride called Enemy of the State. Taking its "innocent man accidentally caught up in political corruption" story from such films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Sydney Pollack's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.69!
9	Syriana (2005) more movies like this directed by Stephen Gaghan featuring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore directorial effort that traces the corruption of the global oil industry from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the petroleum-rich fields of the Middle East. Based in part on the writings of former CIA case officer Robert Baer, Syriana combines ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.08!
10	Spy Game (2001) more movies like this directed by Tony Scott featuring Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman Brad Pitt is reunited as a co-star with his A River Runs Through It (1992) director Robert Redford for this espionage thriller from Tony Scott. On the verge of retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency, veteran spy Nathan Muir (Redford) learns that his one-time protégé Tom Bishop (Pitt) has gone rogue and been taken prisoner after attempting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.21!
11 view cover	Half Moon Street (1986) more movies like this directed by Bob Swaim featuring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh, Keith Buckley, Nadim Sawalha Based on Paul Theroux's Doctor Slaughter, Half-Moon Street is motivated by the moneymaking schemes of the heroine, PhD researcher Laura Slaughter (Sigourney Weaver). Stuck in a low-paying government job in London, Laura decides to increase her bank account by working for what is euphemistically termed an "escort service." It is understood that her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.69!
12 view cover	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) more movies like this directed by John Frankenheimer featuring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, political assassination, and multinational conspiracy were hardly common currency in 1962, and while its outlook is sometimes informed by Cold War paranoia, the film seemed nearly as timely when it was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
13 view cover	JFK (1991) more movies like this directed by Oliver Stone featuring Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been unable to find much fault with the conclusions his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00!
14 view cover	Absolute Power (1997) more movies like this directed by Clint Eastwood featuring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis In this thriller, an aging cat burglar becomes a crusader embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving murder and a government cover-up. Adapted by distinguished scenarist William Goldman from a novel by David Baldacci and featuring a powerful all-star cast, the story works at different levels, not only as a straight-forward thriller but ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29!
15 view cover	The Interpreter (2005) more movies like this directed by Sydney Pollack featuring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal An overheard conversation leads a woman into a dark world of deadly intrigue in this political thriller. Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an African émigré who works as an interpreter at the United Nations. One of the languages she understands is Ku, a dialect spoken in her home country of Matobo. One day, as the General Assembly auditorium is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.80!
16 view cover	Mississippi Burning (1988) more movies like this directed by Alan Parker featuring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself, Hackman charms and cajoles his way through the ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $11.05!
17 view cover	In the Line of Fire (1993) more movies like this directed by Wolfgang Petersen featuring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances, as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Petersen's taut thriller In the Line of Fire. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.32!
18 view cover	Munich (2005) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful drama about the human costs of international terrorism ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.01!
19 view cover	The Manchurian Candidate (2004) more movies like this directed by Jonathan Demme featuring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight Jonathan Demme directed this updated remake of John Frankenheimer's 1962 cult favorite The Manchurian Candidate, a pioneering examination of political conspiracy and psychological reconditioning. Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) are two soldiers who served in the same company during Operation ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99!
20 view cover	No Way Out (1987) more movies like this directed by Roger Donaldson featuring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel (Sean Young), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene in the back of a limo (marvelously parodied in 1993's Hot Shots! Part Deux). Several months pass ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.05!
21 view cover	The Constant Gardener (2005) more movies like this directed by Fernando Meirelles featuring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite A man discovers a deadly secret when he tries to find out who killed the woman he loves in this suspense drama based on a novel by John Le Carré. Justin Quale (Ralph Fiennes) is a low-level British diplomat who has been given a new assignment in Kenya. Justin's wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), is an activist with a keen interest in issues of poverty ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00!
22 view cover	Seven Days in May (1964) more movies like this directed by John Frankenheimer featuring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien Adapted by Rod Serling from the best-selling novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May was allegedly inspired by the far-right ramblings of one General Edwin Walker. Burt Lancaster plays General James M. Scott, who, convinced that liberal President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) is soft on America's enemies, plots a ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $16.78!
23 view cover	The Boys From Brazil (1978) more movies like this directed by Franklin J. Schaffner featuring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot, traces the trail of evidence to Paraguay. Here he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74!
24 view cover	Clear and Present Danger (1994) more movies like this directed by Phillip Noyce featuring Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99!
25 view cover	The Siege (1998) more movies like this directed by Edward Zwick featuring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub Edward Zwick directed this action thriller about Islamic militants unleashing terrorism in New York City. As FBI Terrorism Task Force-chief Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) investigates, a false-alarm bomb threat is followed by a legit bomb, with many killed when a Brooklyn bus explodes. Agents track a suspect through Brooklyn, while Hub teams ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99!

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