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Movies that feel likeCaptain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

If you loved Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the closest films we have are The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), Enemy of the State (1998) and Shooter (2007). All three share Captain America: The Winter Soldier's tense and paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Snowden (2016).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joe Russotenseparanoidkineticepic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) · Captain America: Civil War (2016) · Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

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The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008 · dir. Uli Edel
🍅 85%★ 7.3action · crime · dramaPrime Video

Tense and paranoid in the same breath

The difference: Played as crime first

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

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Enemy of the State
1998 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 71%★ 7.3action · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on momentum more than on action

The difference: Less epic, more its own thing

When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.

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Shooter
2007 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 47%★ 7.2drama · action · thrillerParamount+Starz

Tense adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.

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Green Zone
2010 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 53%★ 6.8war · action · adventure

Science fiction with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Leans further into war

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

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Snowden
2016 · dir. Oliver Stone
🍅 61%★ 7.3drama · history · crimeNetflixStarz

Both are built on the same subject: political thriller

The difference: Lighter on momentum

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

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 90%★ 7.5adventure · action · science fictionNetflix

Paranoid action in both cases

After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2013 · dir. Jon M. Chu
🍅 29%★ 5.7action · science fiction · adventureParamount+

Adventure built on momentum, twice over

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 55%★ 6.2action · drama · thrillerParamount+Starz

Both lean on tension more than on science fiction

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

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White House Down
2013 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 52%★ 6.3action · drama · thrillerNetflixStarz

Action with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

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Exterritorial
2025 · dir. Christian Zübert
★ 5.8thriller · actionNetflix

Different title, same corner of the shelf

When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.

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The Legend of Zorro
2005 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 27%★ 6action · adventure · western

Both keep coming back to the same thing: superhero

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

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Assassin's Creed
2016 · dir. Justin Kurzel
🍅 18%★ 5.6action · adventure · science fiction

From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

Through a technology that unlocks the genetic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order.

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