Movies Like The Chairman
If you liked The Chairman (1969), a action and thriller movie directed by J. Lee Thompson, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thrillerAfter 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…
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Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also action and thrillerAfter 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…
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Sniper: The Last Stand (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also action and thrillerTo stop an arms dealer from unleashing a deadly superweapon, Ace sniper Brandon Beckett and Agent Zero are deployed to Costa Verde to lead a group of elite soldiers against an unrelenting militia. Taking an untested…
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Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thrillerAfter his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding…
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thrillerLed by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country…
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also actionAt the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo…
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The Courier (2020)
★ 7/10Also thrillerCold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Dangerous (2021)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerA reformed sociopath heads to a remote island after the death of his brother. Soon after his arrival, the island falls under siege from a deadly gang of mercenaries, and when he discovers their role in his brother’s…
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Shadow Force (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thrillerKyrah and Isaac were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in order to protect their son, they go underground. With a large bounty on…
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Sniper: G.R.I.T. - Global Response & Intelligence Team (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also action and thrillerWhen an international terrorist cult threatens global political stability and kidnaps a fellow agent, Ace Sniper Brandon Beckett and the newly-formed Global Response & Intelligence Team – or G.R.I.T. – led by Colonel…
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Back in Action (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also actionFifteen years after vanishing from the CIA to start a family, elite spies Matt and Emily jump back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown.
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Zip Wire (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also action and thrillerWhen her ground-breaking pharmaceutical discovery is stolen and partner murdered, researcher Amy must face her fear of heights to escape nefarious attackers, with the only path to salvation being a treacherous aerial…
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Hounds of War (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also action and thrillerAfter a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
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My Spy The Eternal City (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also actionJJ, a veteran CIA agent, reunites with his protégé Sophie, in order to prevent a catastrophic nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.
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Sniper: No Nation (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thrillerBrandon Beckett and Agent Zero lead a rescue mission in Costa Verde when their friends are taken hostage.
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Hunting Grounds (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also action and thrillerDesperate 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…
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My Spy (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also actionA hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
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Art of Eight Limbs (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also action and thrillerFour canisters of deadly VX nerve gas have fallen into the hands of an international arms dealer in Myanmar. A CIA recruit delivers a high-tech detection device to an agent already on the ground.
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Get Smart (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also action and thrillerWhen members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, the Chief has to promote hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart to field…
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Section 8 (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also action and thrillerAfter avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.