Films like The East

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   Backstabbing for Beginners

   Film · 2018 · also drama and thriller

   An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grisly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.

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   Ava

   Film · 2020 · also thriller

   A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

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   The Painter

   Film · 2024 · also thriller

   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 bl...

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   How to Blow Up a Pipeline

   Film · 2023 · also drama and thriller

   A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

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5. 5

   The Operative

   Film · 2019 · also drama and thriller

   A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

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   Night Moves

   Film · 2014 · also drama and thriller

   The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

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   Carlos

   Film · 2010 · also drama

   The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught...

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   Above & Below

   Film · 2026 · also thriller

   A group of friends' dream diving vacation turns into a fight for survival when brutal criminals attack their boat in open waters.

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   A Dry White Season

   Film · 1989 · also drama and thriller

   During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police cu...

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    Nighthawks

    Film · 1981 · also thriller

    When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.

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