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Plot Summary:
US-agent West travels to Moscow for the CIA in order to buy Russian weapons and to send them to the rebels in Afghanistan. When West gets caught he hides his identity and receives 15 years in a working camp in Siberia as penalty.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Red Eagle (1994)
Plot Summary:
Her friend, Doctor Peter Husak, introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic incident, that Jack's a C.I.A. Agent, she leaves him and marries Husak instead. Together, they go into a war area in Nagorny Karabach for a relief organization. When Kate finds out that Husak is willingly cooperating with the K.G.B., she leaves him and asks Carver, who's about to bring a businessman out of the country, to take her and her baby with him on a dangerous flight.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Her Secret Life (1987)
Plot Summary:
Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is swept back into the spy business, leaving her nonplussed hubby in the dust.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Francisca (2002)
Plot Summary:
An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Exiled in America (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Central American revolutionary is captured and tortured by government forces. He escapes and flees to the US, hiding out in a rural area where he is sheltered by a Christian sanctuary movement. His wife gets a job at a local diner run by one of the town's shadier women, and soon a CIA assassination team shows up, looking for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: political, independent film
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The Fool Killer (1965)
Plot Summary:
This singularly off-beat and original period mystery thriller drama curio set in the late 1800's plays like an arrestingly bizarre and inspired cross between "Tom Sawyer" and "Night of the Hunter." Lonely, miserable orphan boy George (a then 12-years-old Edward Albert in his excellent film debut) runs away from his stern, sadistic, abusive foster parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: crying, psychotronic, independent film
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Cliff Walkers (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, action thriller
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City of Spies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kindra, an attractive 21 year old politics student in Vienna, has taken on the spying activities of her parents who have disappeared. Kindra steals UN secrets and sells them anonymously over the internet. Her buyer, Hal, is suspicious that his usual source has been replaced by an imposter and when Kindra persuades Hal to pay her in advance for information that she does not possess, the deception triggers an all out hunt, and it's only a matter of time before Hal and his organisation get to her - unless the other side get to her first.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, fun
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5 Women (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five old girlfriends meet once a year for a weekend get-together in Southern France, to catch up together in a relaxed atmosphere. But when an intruder interrupts their getaway, the weekend threatens to spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Safe (2017)
Plot Summary:
A thriller with a surprise twist about the NSA Deputy Director, who needs a genius plan to save his child from a kidnapper, who wants him to betray the privacy of all US citizens and make him the next Snowden with a devious marketing plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Dark Asset (2023)
Plot Summary:
A charming guy attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Trade Routes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set against an Eastern European nation's election, in a country that was the most notorious communist dictatorship, the film charts the paths of five characters; An aging CIA officer; A young attractive economic advisor; The ambitious Bulgarian Prime Minister's chief of staff; An American political consultant; and a retired member of the Bulgarian Communist State Police. These five character destinies intertwine in the weeks leading up to the elections in a fledgling democracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, political drama
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Altered Minds (2013)
Plot Summary:
A family reunion goes awry when the oldest son makes the accusation that his dying father, a famed psychiatrist who also did work for the CIA, adopted his children for the purposes of psychological experimentation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1979)
Plot Summary:
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, Iran, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
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Last In, First Out (1978)
Plot Summary:
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Mind Benders (1963)
Plot Summary:
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Across the Line (2000)
Plot Summary:
Across the Line (2000) is a truthful representation of both hope and corruption, focusing on critical events transpiring at America's border with Mexico and known both to those who live on the "line" (physical and metaphorical) and to those with the courage to cross it. Further it is a fine example of the filmmaker's art, featuring convincing portrayals underpinned by a convincing script and the directorial talent of Martin Spottl.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Dead Season (1968)
Plot Summary:
A duel between Soviet spy and German war criminal.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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Assassin (2023)
Plot Summary:
A private military operation invents futuristic microchip tech that enables the mind of an agent to inhabit the body of another person to carry out covert, deadly missions. But when an agent is killed during a secret mission, his wife takes his place in an attempt to bring the man responsible to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Laguna Heat (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Hangmen (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. Connelly's men try to kill Greene, but he can escape and warns his son Danny that he also may be in danger and that he should look for Dog Thompson.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blood Crime (2002)
Plot Summary:
For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. Enraged, Pruitt pummels the man. Once at the ER, however, she changes her mind and names a male nurse as her attacker. But before Pruitt can make amends, he learns that his victim, the son of Sheriff Morgan McKenna, is dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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MR-9 (2023)
Plot Summary:
Masud Rana is a Secret Agent with code name MR-9 of the Bangladesh Counter Intelligence Agency.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Bangladesh
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Operation C.I.A. (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young CIA agent is assigned to Saigon to stop a planned political assassination.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Zone (1995)
Plot Summary:
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous tyrant Lothar Krasna.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Five Fingers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat, trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind blowing, twisted, emotional, twist ending, perverse, exciting
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Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in US history.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Little Nikita (1988)
Plot Summary:
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, including "sleepers," agents under deep cover awaiting orders. Roy interviews a high school lad, Jeff Grant, an applicant to the Air Force Academy. In a routine background check, Roy discovers that Jeff's parents are sleepers. He must see if Jeff is also a spy, confront the parents yet protect them, and catch his nemesis. Meanwhile, the Soviets have sent their own spy-catcher, the loner Karpov, to reel in Scuba. Alliances shift; it's cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, cult classic, serious, realistic, psychological, sexy, clever, brutal
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The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
Plot Summary:
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible scheme, but must outwit not only the cream of the German Navy, but the feared Kaiser Wilhelm himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film
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Unstoppable (2004)
Plot Summary:
The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan. He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, suspense, political thriller, psychological, experimental, fast
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The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Plot Summary:
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: political, talky, stylized, suspense, sexy, realistic, serious, clever, cynical, entertaining