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Movies Like The Bourne Identity That You Really Need To See
By LIAM GAUGHAN
Green Zone
Matt Damon plays idealistic U.S. Army Officer Roy Miller, who discovers discrepancies in the official reports about weapons of mass destruction that informed the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Like Jason Bourne, Miller is forced to question the official story and seek out answers for himself.
Adjustment Bureau
Damon delivers a nuanced performance as a character struggling to redeem himself while fighting against the system in the film. Like "The Bourne Identity," "The Adjustment Bureau" has a sense of creeping anxiety and expertly mixes realistic action with emotional romantic drama.
The Manchurian...
"The Manchurian Candidate" follows Korean War hero Raymond Shaw, who has been brainwashed by Communist spies and turned into a covert assassin. Like Bourne, Shaw is a sympathetic character because he has no control over his fate and often wakes up with gaps in his memory.
Atomic Blonde
Charlize Theron's Lorraine Broughton is an MI6 agent who is dispatched to the Soviet Union to uncover a stolen list of secret agents' identities. Like Damon, Theron completely commits to the jaw-dropping action sequences and does most of her own stunt work.
Beirut
Tony Gilroy, screenwriter of four "Bourne" movies and director of the underrated spinoff "The Bourne Legacy," wrote the script for the 2018 action political thriller "Beirut." Like the "Bourne" films, "Beirut" focuses on the minutiae of covert operations as a man is hunted by shadowy forces.