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From high-stakes espionage to daring rescue missions, the world of mission-based movies and TV shows is full of heart-pumping action, suspense, and intrigue. Whether you're a fan of classic spy thrillers or more recent blockbuster hits, there's something for everyone in this exciting genre. In this article, we'll take a closer look at some of the best mission-based movies and TV shows out there, and explore what makes them so compelling.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Cast
Elijah Wood Elijah Wood
Ian McKellen Ian McKellen
Viggo Mortensen Viggo Mortensen Sean Astin Sean Astin
8.4 24.1K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, United States of America
Duration: 179 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
Plot:  mission, based on novel or book, elves, dwarf, magic, obsession, allegory, bravery, ...
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Inception
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Ken Watanabe Ken Watanabe
Tom Hardy Tom Hardy
8.4 39.5K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Duration: 148 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Plot:  mission, dreams, kidnapping, spy, allegory, intellectual, manipulation, heist, ...
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Apocalypse Now
Cast
Martin Sheen Martin Sheen
Marlon Brando Marlon Brando
Frederic Forrest Frederic Forrest
Albert Hall Albert Hall
8.3 9.2K votes
Genre: Drama, War
Country: United States of America
Duration: 147 min.
Audience: R
Story:  At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Style:  absurd
Plot:  guerrilla warfare, journalist, mission, vietcong, central intelligence agency (cia), army, drug abuse, based on novel or book, ...
Time:  vietnam war
Place:  vietnam, cambodia
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Running Man
Cast
Yoo Jae-suk Yoo Jae-suk
Jee Seok-jin Jee Seok-jin
Kim Jong-kook Kim Jong-kook
Haha Haha
8.2 213 votes
Genre: Comedy, Reality
Country: South Korea
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 815
Audience: TV-14
Story:  These days, as variety shows are gradually disappearing, this is one of Korea’s representative variety shows that has been responsible for Sunday evenings for over 10 years. This program features numerous stars and members going around various places, playing games, and completing missions. In particular, among the many fun elements of variety shows, this one focuses solely on laughter.Open your eyes! Big fun is coming in!Open your mouth! Big laughter is coming in!Open your heart! Useful lessons are coming in!
Plot:  comedian, mission, game, race, variety show
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Codename: Kids Next Door
8.2 784 votes
Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 139
Audience: TV-Y7
Story:  Taking numbers instead of names, five extraordinary 10-year-olds form a covert team called the Kids Next Door with one dedicated mission: to free all children from the tyrannical rule of adults.
Plot:  gadget, secret organization, mission, spy hero
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D.P.
Cast
Jung Hae-in Jung Hae-in
Koo Kyo-hwan Koo Kyo-hwan
Kim Sung-kyun Kim Sung-kyun
Son Suk-ku Son Suk-ku
8.0 267 votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 12
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.
Style:  melancholy, dark, gritty
Plot:  desertion, investigation, based on comic, mission, escape, soldier, military life, military police, ...
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Toy Story
Cast
Tom Hanks Tom Hanks Tim Allen Tim Allen
Don Rickles Don Rickles
Jim Varney Jim Varney
8.0 20.2K votes
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 81 min.
Audience: G
Story:  Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
Style:  nostalgic
Plot:  rescue, friendship, mission, jealousy, villain, bullying, elementary school, rivalry, ...
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Star Trek: Voyager
7.8 1.1K votes
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 169
Audience: TV-PG
Story:  Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.
Style:  philosophical
Plot:  time warp, spacecraft, hologram, space travel, galaxy, space, alien, alien planet, ...
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The Silent Sea
Cast
Bae Doona Bae Doona
Gong Yoo Gong Yoo
Lee Joon Lee Joon
Kim Sun-young Kim Sun-young
7.6 713 votes
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
Country: South Korea
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.
Plot:  moon, research, space, mission, moon base, silent, based on short film, suspense, ...
Time:  future, 2070s
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Cast
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise
Hayley Atwell Hayley Atwell
Ving Rhames Ving Rhames
Simon Pegg Simon Pegg
7.5 5.2K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 164 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Plot:  mask, race against time, mission, rome, italy, chase, secret mission, spy, ...
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Predestination
Cast
Ethan Hawke Ethan Hawke
Sarah Snook Sarah Snook
Noah Taylor Noah Taylor
Christopher Kirby Christopher Kirby
7.4 7.2K votes
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
Style:  shocking, philosophical
Plot:  mission, orphanage, pregnancy, bomber, secret organization, time travel, bartender, time machine, ...
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Bullet Train
Cast
Brad Pitt Brad Pitt
Joey King Joey King
Aaron Taylor-Johnson Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Brian Tyree Henry Brian Tyree Henry
7.4 7.7K votes
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 126 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.
Plot:  mission, assassin, based on novel or book, hitman, briefcase, train, luck, runaway train, ...
Place:  japan
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In the Grey
Cast
Henry Cavill Henry Cavill
Jake Gyllenhaal Jake Gyllenhaal
Eiza Gonzu00e1lez Eiza Gonzu00e1lez
Carlos Bardem Carlos Bardem
7.4 475 votes
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Duration: 97 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A covert team of elite operatives are living in the shadows. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, they're sent to take it back—an impossible heist that erupts into a deadly game of strategy, deception and survival.
Style:  irreverent, provocative
Plot:  mission, heist, agent, dangerous mission, audacious, enthusiastic, sarcastic
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Sicario
Cast
Emily Blunt Emily Blunt
Benicio del Toro Benicio del Toro
Josh Brolin Josh Brolin
Victor Garber Victor Garber
7.4 9.6K votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 122 min.
Audience: R
Story:  An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Plot:  mission, assassin, central intelligence agency (cia), corruption, bomb, fbi, smoking, border, ...
Place:  mexico, texas
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The Mission
Cast
Robert De Niro Robert De Niro
Jeremy Irons Jeremy Irons
Ray McAnally Ray McAnally
Aidan Quinn Aidan Quinn
7.4 1.6K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: United Kingdom, France
Duration: 125 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Plot:  mission, resistance, christianity, religious conversion, based on true story, waterfall, jungle, colonisation, ...
Time:  18th century
Place:  argentina, south america
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13 Assassins
Cast
Koji Yakusho Koji Yakusho
Takayuki Yamada Takayuki Yamada
Yu016bsuke Iseya Yu016bsuke Iseya
Goro Inagaki Goro Inagaki
7.3 1.3K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, United Kingdom
Duration: 141 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Plot:  suicide, mission, assassin, samurai, immortality, swordsman, massacre, battle, ...
Time:  19th century
Place:  japan
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Cast
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise
Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner
Simon Pegg Simon Pegg
Rebecca Ferguson Rebecca Ferguson
7.2 9.8K votes
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: United States of America
Duration: 131 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.
Plot:  mask, mission, assassin, london, england, spy, villain, fake identity, ...
Place:  morocco, austria
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The Shadow Strays
Cast
Aurora Ribero Aurora Ribero
Hana Malasan Hana Malasan
Andri Mashadi Andri Mashadi
Adipati Dolken Adipati Dolken
7.2 323 votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 145 min.
Audience: NC-17
Story:  Skilled in the art of killing, a young assassin defies her mentor to save a boy from a ruthless crime syndicate — and she'll destroy anyone in her path.
Plot:  mission, martial arts, assassin, gangster, redemption, gore, revenge, gang, ...
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The Patriot
Cast
Mel Gibson Mel Gibson
Heath Ledger Heath Ledger
Joely Richardson Joely Richardson
Jason Isaacs Jason Isaacs
7.2 4.4K votes
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Germany, United States of America
Duration: 165 min.
Audience: R
Story:  After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
Plot:  daughter, mission, general, southern usa, loss of loved one, rebel, patriotism, insurgence, ...
Time:  18th century
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A Bridge Too Far
Cast
Dirk Bogarde Dirk Bogarde
James Caan James Caan
Michael Caine Michael Caine
Sean Connery Sean Connery
7.2 942 votes
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Duration: 175 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Plot:  mission, army, allies, bridge, tank, based on true story, operation market garden, soldier, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1940s
Place:  netherlands
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