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Movies that feel likeWhite House Down (2013)

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.

If you loved White House Down, the closest films we have are Shooter (2007), Enemy of the State (1998) and The Negotiator (1998). All three share White House Down's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008).

🍅 52% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Roland Emmerichkineticcontemplativetenseparanoid
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Shooter
2007 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 47%★ 7.2drama · action · thrillerParamount+Starz

The same two preoccupations: usa president, and conspiracy

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

Kinetic and contemplative in the same breath

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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The Negotiator
1998 · dir. F. Gary Gray
★ 7.3action · crime · drama

Both are built on the same subject: conspiracy

The difference: Leans harder into crime than White House Down does

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

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Conclave
2024 · dir. Edward Berger
🍅 93%★ 7.4drama · thrillerStarz

The same mix in both: tension, then paranoia

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: terrorist plot

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

Kinetic action in both cases

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than White House Down does

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 Commuter
2018 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 55%★ 6.3action · thriller · mysteryHulu

Action with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of White House Down for an angle of its own

A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

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

One thread runs through both: explosion

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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3 Days to Kill
2014 · dir. McG
🍅 27%★ 6.2action · drama · thrillerStarz

The same preoccupation in both: secret service

A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

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Mutiny
2026 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 50%★ 5.7action · thrillerRent or buy

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

After witnessing his billionaire boss' murder and being framed for the crime, Cole Reed boards a cargo ship on a one-man crusade to avenge his boss' death only to discover an international conspiracy.

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