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   Off the Grid

   Strong story similarity

   2025 · 105 min · Action · Thriller

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   After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their biggest mistake of all – they weaponize the man they are trying to catch.

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   • a closely matched era

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   Exit Protocol

   Similar atmosphere

   2025 · 84 min · Action · Thriller

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   An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Chief of Station

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   2024 · 93 min · Action · Thriller

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   After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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   Point Blank

   Strong story similarity

   2019 · 86 min · Action · Thriller

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   A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.

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   Lights Out

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   2024 · 90 min · Action · Thriller

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   A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Hunting Grounds

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   2025 · 89 min · Action · Thriller

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   Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns out that Jake is the biggest enemy of them all.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   One Night in Bangkok

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   2020 · 105 min · Action · Thriller

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   A hit man named Kai flies into Bangkok, gets a gun, and orders a cab. He offers a professional female driver big money to be his all-night driver. But when she realizes Kai is committing brutal murders at each stop, it's too late to walk away. Meanwhile, an offbeat police detective races to decode the string of slayings before more blood is spilled.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Hounds of War

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   2024 · 94 min · Action · Thriller

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   After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Painter

   Strong story similarity

   2024 · 100 min · Action · Thriller

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   An ex-CIA operative is thrown back into a dangerous world when a mysterious woman from his past resurfaces. Now exposed and targeted by a relentless killer and a rogue black ops program, he must rely on skills he thought he left behind in a high-stakes game of survival.

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    Air Force One Down

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 84 min · Action · Thriller

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    On her first assignment aboard Air Force One, a rookie Secret Service agent faces the ultimate test when terrorists hijack the plane, intent on derailing a pivotal energy deal. With the President's life on the line and a global crisis at stake, her bravery and skills are pushed to the limit in a relentless battle that could change the course of history.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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