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Plot Summary:
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, clever, light, political, satirical, melancholic, realistic, semi serious
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The Experts (1989)
Plot Summary:
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they have actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, satirical, humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, feel good
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The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Plot Summary:
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, cult classic, colorful, spoof, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast
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The Destructors (1968)
Plot Summary:
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Don't Drink the Water (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 962
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, sitcom
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Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
Plot Summary:
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, retro, spy comedy, cult classic, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending
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Salt and Pepper (1968)
Plot Summary:
London nightclub owners (Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford) play spy and foil a military madman out to overthrow the government.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized, semi serious, slapstick
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Company Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, funny, satirical, spy comedy, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, clever
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The American Way (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of Vietnam vets disturbs television programs from a B-29 airplane. They want to sabotage Mrs Westinghouse's political campaign who is running for the Senate in support of US military involvement in South America. Mrs Westinghouse orders some nuclear missiles to be launched against the saboteurs, but they manage to avoid the impact and even succeed in exposing a big secret of hers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, psychotronic, independent film, cynical, biting, suspense
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Plot Summary:
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, suspenseful, anamorphic, neo noir, suspense, romantic comedy, cult classic, semi serious, surprise ending
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Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Plot Summary:
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, spy comedy, psychotronic, offbeat, witty, not serious, light, sexy
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Get Smart, Again! (1989)
Plot Summary:
KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spoof, spy comedy, parody, exciting, offbeat, humorous, not serious, fast, comic
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Murderers' Row (1966)
Plot Summary:
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, retro, spoof, grindhouse, cult classic, parody, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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S*P*Y*S (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spy comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, not serious, spoof
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The Silencers (1966)
Plot Summary:
Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, spoof, grindhouse, spy comedy, esoteric, crime thriller, parody, independent film, exciting, humorous
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The Ambushers (1967)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. government built flying saucer is launched into space on a top secret test flight, but is brought down by exiled ruler of an outlaw nation who uses a remote control device to cause the ship to land at his secret base in Mexico. Agent Matt Helm is assigned to find the saucer and has to contend with an enemy agent and an Arab assassin.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, psychotronic, spy comedy, psychedelic, grindhouse, rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over their assets. Secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) and millionaire Todd Armstrong set out to foil his fiendish plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick, humorous, grindhouse, spy comedy, exciting, offbeat, not serious, fast
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In Like Flint (1967)
Plot Summary:
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 90 seconds while golfing with the president. Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: spoof, exciting, parody, humorous, witty, grindhouse, spy comedy, psychedelic, not serious, fast
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Our Man Flint (1966)
Plot Summary:
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, grindhouse, exciting, witty, spy comedy, visually stunning, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Bad Company (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, suspenseful, action comedy, semi serious, funny, entertaining, action packed, spy comedy, realistic
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Duplicity (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two romantically-engaged corporate spies team up to manipulate a corporate race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and enable them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: clever, sexy, romantic, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, stylized, semi serious, witty
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True Lies (1994)
Plot Summary:
Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government. For years, he has kept his job from his wife, but is forced to reveal his identity and try to stop nuclear terrorists when he and his wife are kidnapped by them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 276000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, action packed, action comedy, semi serious, funny, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, scary
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The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Plot Summary:
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult classic, satirical, black comedy, independent film, allegory, clever, surreal, funny, mind bending, psychedelic
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Canadian Bacon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Canadian Bacon is the only fictitious film from Director Michael Moore. This comedy is about an American president who decides to go to war to bring the public’s opinion of him up during election time. Canadian Bacon is actor John Candy’s last film.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, political, satirical, light, talky, semi serious, witty, sweet, independent film, realistic
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In the Loop (2009)
Plot Summary:
The US President and the UK Prime Minister are looking to launch a war in the Middle East. The plot follows government officials and advisers in their behind-the-scenes efforts either to promote the war or prevent it. Spinal Tap meets Strangelove. A satirical demolition of Whitehall and Washington: politically astute, hilarious and terrifyingly real.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: political, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, semi serious, funny, light, clever, realistic, witty
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The Jigsaw Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Enemy of the State (1998)
Plot Summary:
Hotshot Washington lawyer, Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security agent sets out to recover the tape – and destroy Dean.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 256000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, tense, political thriller, suspenseful, political, exciting, sexy, entertaining, action thriller
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Head of State (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam (Rock) as his replacement.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, absurd, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, hilarious
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Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Plot Summary:
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: political thriller, tense, suspense, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful, political, neo noir, psychological thriller, mysterious
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Plot Summary:
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspense, psychological, clever, political, tense, suspenseful, twist ending, intense, stylized
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Topaz (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, political thriller, enigmatic, psychological thriller, exciting, retro, art house