10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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If you liked Captain America: The Winter Soldier then make sure you check out these other conspiracy action-thriller movies as well.

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10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ‘Phase Two’ movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a big hit for the franchise and became somewhat of a landmark within the interconnected series of movies as well as the superhero genre overall.

If you’re a fan of the movie and are curious as to what other conspiracy-themed action-thrillers there are out there that either measure up to The Winter Solider or directly inspired it, then be sure to check out these movies too.

10 Eagle Eye

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Shia LaBeouf leads this technologically-minded thriller as a college dropout suddenly thrust into a government conspiracy in the wake of his twin brother’s death.

Eagle Eye, much like The Winter Soldier, utilizes classic espionage movie thrills in a plot that focusses on contemporary issues surrounding surveillance and technology.

9 Enemy of the State

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Tony Scott’s thriller sees Will Smith’s lawyer sucked into a rogue government assassination coverup by random chance with his only hope for survival resting with Gene Hackman’s former CIA surveillance expert.

Enemy of the State made a lot of seemingly wild claims about the technological capabilities of intelligence agencies, most of which are now accepted as fact in everyday life.

8 Eraser

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Arnold Schwarzenegger brings the explosiveness that MCU fans will no doubt be craving from their thrillers as he plays an expert in erasing the identities of high-profile witnesses who is, himself, framed and forced to go off the grid when he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving high-tech weaponry.

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Whilst a good deal darker and bloodier than an MCU movie, Eraser is packed full of Schwarzenegger’s signature charm and plenty of his typically over-the-top action fun.

7 Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Another relatively latter-day entry into a sprawling franchise that is often enjoyed as its own standout chapter in the overarching story, the sixth Star Trek movie blends its genres as effectively as The Winter Soldier does and it bears mentioning that, while Star Trek is generally thought of as being quite influential on the MCU, fans will definitely notice the influence that The Undiscovered Country had on the culmination of Captain America’s story in Avengers: Endgame.

The plot sees the original crew of the USS Enterprise, in their final movie together, racing against time to clear Captain Kirk’s name in the assassination of a Klingon ambassador on the eve of peace talks which directly reflected the then-ongoing dissolution of the USSR.

6 XXX: State of the Union

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Vin Diesel was replaced by Ice Cube for the second movie in the xXx franchise with series mainstay Samuel L. Jackson reprising his Nick Fury-esque role from the original installment.

The plot of high treason within the US government, and the ridiculously huge set pieces of the movie’s action, will strike a chord with fans of The Winter Soldier’s most ambitious sequences.

5 Salt

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Angelina Jolie plays the superspy forced to go on the run in this more grounded, but no less action-packed, thriller about Russian sleeper agents infiltrating the highest levels of the US intelligence community.

Sharing a number of the same locations as The Winter Soldier, Salt will satisfy an MCU fan’s standards for star power as well their desire for bare-knuckle fight choreography.

4 State of Play

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Much more a political thriller than an action thriller, State of Play was a movie adaptation of an acclaimed British TV series of the same name which transposed London for Washington D.C. and creates plenty of thrillingly tense moments even if few shots are fired.

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Russell Crowe plays a journalist unraveling a mysterious set of murders and their connection to Ben Affleck’s congressmen with the overwhelming power of the movie’s impressive supporting cast outdoing even the MCU in terms of acting pedigree.

3 The Parallax View

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Of the many conspiracy movies of the 1970s, there are none more paranoid than the movies that make up Alan J. Pakula’s ‘paranoia trilogy’ and, of those movies, there are none more strange, striking and action-packed than The Parallax View.

A hugely dark and influential movie, Parallax View centers around a conspiracy to create assassins via the psychological manipulation of violent subjects and, while it’s an often hauntingly dreamlike story, the plot hits closer to home than perhaps any other movie mentioned here and appears to only grow more and more relevant to society as it ages.

2 Three Days of the Condor

10 Conspiracy Movies To Watch If You Love Captain America The Winter Soldier

Legendary actor Robert Redford was no stranger to iconic conspiracy movies before coming to The Winter Soldier and his casting in the movie legitimized the thriller more than many of the other impressive casting choices of the franchise up to that point.

His most famous conspiracy role would be in the final part of Pakula’s ‘paranoia trilogy’, All the President’s Men, but Sydney Pollack’s ice-cold thriller of CIA assassinations is far more relevant to the image which would inform his role as Alexander Pierce in the MCU.

1 The Bourne Ultimatum

The third Jason Bourne movie expanded on the already-impressive accomplishments made by the series in the field of grounded and realistic action, taking the unstoppable superspy to war against all that the fearsome intelligence apparatus of the CIA could throw at him.

The Bourne Ultimatum cemented Matt Damon’s take on the character as one of the most significant icons of the contemporary thriller genre and stunned both critics and audiences with its sprawling and technically-accomplished set pieces and sequences.

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