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Key Features:
Political thriller, On the run, Underground movement, Activism, Identity, Journalism, FBI, Conspiracy, Past secrets, Moral ambiguity, Family, Cat and mouse, Legal drama
Tone:
serious, suspense-driven, dramatic
Target Audience:
Thriller fans, Political drama enthusiasts, Suspense lovers, Cerebral
Emotional Arc:
Intrigue → Suspicion → Revelation

The Company You Keep

2012-12-20
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A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

Genres
Drama, Thriller
Cast
Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Brendan Gleeson, Terrence Howard, Susan Sarandon, Chris Cooper, Stanley Tucci, Julie Christie, Richard Jenkins
Crew
Robert Redford, Lem Dobbs
Rating
6.167(756 votes)
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Conspiracy Theory
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Three Days of the Condor

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The Commuter
6.4

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Kafka
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6.4

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.



True Story
6.256

A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.



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The Quarry
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A counter-terrorism expert takes a job protecting a young heiress. After an attempted kidnapping puts both of their lives in danger, they must flee.



The Osterman Weekend
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The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.



The Fifth Estate
6.012

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.



Fair Game
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A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.



Cleanskin
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While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry's briefcase full of Semtex explosives and escapes. Ewan's spymasters task Ewan with hunting down the cell members and retrieving the briefcase.



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Off the Grid
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CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.



The Chain Reaction
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The Dissident
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When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.



The Contract
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Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.



Criminal
Criminal(2016)
6.2

CIA Agent Bill Pope is on a mission to track down a shadowy hacker named 'The Dutchman'. When he gets mysteriously killed, an experimental procedure transfers his memories into a dangerous ex-convict. When he wakes up Pope's memories, his mission is to eliminate The Dutchman before the hacker launches ICBMs and starts World War III.



Cellular
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A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.



Rendition
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6.4

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.



Runaway Train
7

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.



Safe House
6.5

A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.



The Killer
6.58

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.



The Public Eye
6.2

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Company Business
5.2

An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.



The Guilty
6.427

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.



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5.7

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The Hunting Party
6.5

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The Conspiracy
6

A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.



Money Monster
6.4

Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.



The Collection
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The Mother
6.627

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State of Play
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Marathon Man
7.17

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The Passenger
7.2

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The Contractor
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The China Syndrome
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Running on Empty
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The Collective
5.6

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The Runner
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Wanted Man
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The Interview
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A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?



The Ritual
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The Temp
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4.7

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The Conversation
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The Trial of the Chicago 7

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The Party
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The Fourth State
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Cape Fear
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The Life of David Gale

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Phone Booth
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Backstabbing for Beginners

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Unknown
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The Peacemaker
6

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A Company Man
6.822

A contract killer becomes disenchanted with his line of work and spares the lives of his two latest would-be-victims. But the assassination company he works for has no intentions of letting him quit.



Unlikely Revolutionaries

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Outlaw
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Dark Waters
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The Strays
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Spider
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The Courier
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The Getaway
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Let Her Kill You
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The Zone
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Fire Twister
5.4

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Bad Company
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After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.



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Fahrenheit 451
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7.2

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4.95

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6.149

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Contraband
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Enemy of the State
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Anesthesia
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Ghost Trail
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