If You Liked Absolute Power, Watch These Next
Finished Absolute Power (1997) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Absolute Power, most of them are crime, drama, action.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Murder at 1600(1997)
6.1ActionDramaMysteryAlso action and drama
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate…
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2.The Sentinel(2006)
6.1ActionThrillerCrimeAlso action and crime
Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators…
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3.In the Line of Fire(1993)
7.0ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and drama
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from…
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4.The Contract(2006)
5.8DramaActionThrillerAlso drama and action
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.
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5.Nick of Time(1995)
6.2ThrillerCrimeActionAlso crime and action
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
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6.The Anderson Tapes(1971)
6.1CrimeThrillerActionAlso crime and action
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
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7.Shooter(2007)
7.1DramaActionThrillerAlso drama and action
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…
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8.Edge of Darkness(2010)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate…
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9.The Double(2011)
5.8ActionDramaCrimeAlso action and drama
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but…
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10.The Parallax View(1974)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
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11.Patriot Games(1992)
6.7DramaActionThrillerAlso drama and action
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
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12.Fast Charlie(2023)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.
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13.The Getaway(1972)
7.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and crime
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
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15.Barron's Cove(2025)
7.2CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and drama
When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the kidnapped boy.
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16.Gone Baby Gone(2007)
7.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants…
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19.A Walk Among the Tombstones(2014)
6.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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20.The Locksmith(2023)
5.9ThrillerMysteryActionAlso action and crime
A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.
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