Movies like The Day of the Jackal
24 films close to The Day of the Jackal (1973) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
based on novel or book, assassin, fake identity · Action, Thriller
police, assassin, assassination · Action, Thriller
police, traitor · Action, Thriller
based on novel or book, france · Action, Thriller
assassin, assassination · Action, Thriller
hitman, police · Action, Thriller
based on novel or book, fake identity · Action, Thriller
police · Action, Thriller
france · Action, Thriller
police · Action, Thriller
assassination · Action, Thriller
hitman, police · Action, Thriller
police, based on novel or book · Action, Thriller
police, assassin, disguise · Action, Thriller
hitman, police · Action, Thriller
paris, france, france · Action, Thriller · with Michael Lonsdale
based on novel or book, assassination · Action, Thriller
traitor · Action, Thriller
police, based on novel or book · Action, Thriller
based on novel or book, assassination · Action, Thriller
hitman · Action, Thriller
assassin, based on novel or book, paris, france · Action, Thriller
Close on feel, same era · Action, Thriller
police, based on novel or book · Action, Thriller
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.