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Plot Summary:
An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spy comedy
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Royce (1994)
Plot Summary:
Royce is a member of the ultra-secret service "Black Hole", working for the US Government on top-secret missions. When the senator responsible for forming Black Hole disbands the organization, Royce's fellow Black Hole members plot revenge on the man responsible for them losing their jobs. Royce decides not to join them, instead deciding to thwart their attempts to exact revenge on the senator.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Otley (1969)
Plot Summary:
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, independent film, eurospy
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Kill Me Gently (1967)
Plot Summary:
One of Tony and Brad's best with the boys on the hunt for a treasure of missing LSD that has been stolen by a criminal organization. Their quest eventually leads the boys to far-off desert oil ruins where much of the film's best action occurs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, France, Lebanon, Hungary
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: eurospy, cult film
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To Be a Millionaire (1980)
Plot Summary:
The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Blindfold (1966)
Plot Summary:
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, slang, tension, suspense
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13 Frightened Girls (1963)
Plot Summary:
While attending a Swiss school for diplomats' daughters, the teenage daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engage in espionage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, microfilm
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Paradisio (1962)
Plot Summary:
An English professor interested in photography is given a pair of special sunglasses by an Austrian colleague. To his surprise and boyish delight, he discovers they're X-ray specs, which allow him to see through people's clothes! As he ventures across Europe, he is pursued by spies who're after the glasses. He eventually manages to elude them, and settles down to a life of ease, ogling naked women on beaches.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, parody, campy
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Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang (1966)
Plot Summary:
Kirk Warren, a former spy, is to be executed because he tried to steal a million dollars. But he is saved by Colonel Smithson because Sir Wilcox has prepared a mission for him. Warren has to steal a secret formula in Switzerland and try to expose the real identity of Mr. X. Kirk leaves London and Alina, his girl, together with three clumsy friends to accomplish his not so secret mission. But Kirk's great love is always a million dollars and not a secret formula.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, eurospy, campy
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Out of Sight (1966)
Plot Summary:
Teenage beach party/spy spoof/musical comedy about a plot to bomb a music fair. As his boss is on vacation, a superspy's butler must come to the rescue, while being pursued by a trio of gorgeous assassins who're agents of F.L.U.S.H. Features George Barris hotrods, along with the musical talents of Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Astronauts, The Knickerbockers, Freddy and the Dreamers, and the only film appearance of The Turtles.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spy comedy, psychotronic, spoof, comic
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The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
Plot Summary:
A wacky 60s spy spoof.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, spoof
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The President's Analyst (1967)
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 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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Requiem for a Secret Agent (1966)
Plot Summary:
The last of Sergio Sollima's three Eurospy movies about an US agent who battles a spy network.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, eurospy
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The Great Spy Chase (1964)
Plot Summary:
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, anthology, spy comedy, cult classic, spoof, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Strike First Freddy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy. They assign their best agent, Smith to be his partner and supervisor. Their main task is to eliminate the head of the enemy conspiracy, the mysterious 'Dr. Pax' who's real identity is unknown. Freddy accompanies Smith to Stockholm where they are to meet Sonja, an agent for Dr. Pax, who is also on Smith's liquidation list. Thanks to his bag of game tricks, Freddy manages to avoid being done in by Kolick, a killer for Dr. Pax. Freddy falls for Sonja, and he, she and Smith are taken as prisoners to Dr. Pax's hideout, a remote island fortress from which a major power is to be attacked by missiles guided by trained pigeons. Freddy manages to teach Dr. Pax a lasting lesson in the difference between trained pigeons and homing pigeons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, eurospy
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The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
Plot Summary:
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, campy
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Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
Plot Summary:
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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Agente Logan - missione Ypotron (1966)
Plot Summary:
Agent Lemmy Logan is investigating the case of a missing NASA scientist and discovers that an ex nazi is developing a new super weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, eurospy
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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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That Man in Istanbul (1965)
Plot Summary:
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, eurospy
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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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Caprice (1967)
Plot Summary:
Doris Day stars as Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, when see sells a secret cosmetics formula to a competitor the troubles never stop.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, esoteric, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Assignment K (1968)
Plot Summary:
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, eurospy
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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 Liquidator (1965)
Plot Summary:
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, political thriller, rough, realistic, stylized, fast
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Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Plot Summary:
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspenseful, visually stunning, serious, realistic, psychotronic, psychological, exciting, tense, parody
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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