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Plot Summary:
After a criminal gang kidnaps a scientist with valuable information about nuclear weapons, an undercover agent named Jorge Rubio tries to infiltrate this gang in order to deal with the situation. The gang, however, quickly unmasks Rubio and uses both brainwashing and torture techniques on him. They also create a clone of Rubio, thus setting up a show-down battle between the two look-alikes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: vintage
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Transit Carlsbad (1966)
Plot Summary:
Even in the "enlightened" 60. years filmmakers like to play spies. In the grand-world environment, Luxury hotel in Karlovy Vary the sophisticated charade unfolds, in which several foreign agents interested in the famous Austrian scientist, the discoverer of the artificial protein. Endangered man fortunately never notice danger around him. His protection was entrusted to the mysterious madame Elizabeth, amongst agents famed as the ' 006, in fact, working for the State security... As a parody, perhaps the movie succeeded, but hardly convincing anyone - and this is despite scriptwriting participation of the renowned Jan Procházka.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration:
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Innocent Bystanders (1972)
Plot Summary:
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political thriller, eurospy
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Danger!! Death Ray (1967)
Plot Summary:
Danger Death Ray, the funniest of the cheesy spy films that MST had fun with. Former Tarzan Gordon Scott sucks in his gut for this one. Professor Carmichael has developed a death ray "for peaceful purposes only" but a vague group of bad guys want it instead, so he's kidnapped by doughy guys and taken to their toy sub (via a toy helicopter)Bart Fargo must rescue him cause he's the only American spy who looks good in womanly sunglasses. Cool music accompanies him as he searches for Carmichael while he must deal with evil Abe Lincolns, a fey bad guy tuned friend of Fargo's and a couple of women who he must sleep with. In the end the ineffective bad guy gets killed, the professor and the death ray get rescued and Bart gets the woman. There's also a complex scene with a watch thrown in a pool which symbolizes the amount of time that was wasted on smart screen writing for the movie.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, eurospy
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The Doll Squad (1973)
Plot Summary:
Squad of beautiful government agents tries to catch saboteurs.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, corny, campy, cult film
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The Secret of Steel City (1979)
Plot Summary:
The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, crying, psychotronic
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Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tony Kendall, Brad Harris. Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Lots of jungle thrills, martial arts, ancient temples, huge explosions, & even sci-fi elements. Watch for Harris' great karate fight inside a crumbling temple, surrounded by masked members of an ancient sect.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Austria, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: eurospy, cult film
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Black Samurai (1976)
Plot Summary:
Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, cult classic, independent film, weird, cult film
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Suicide Mission (1973)
Plot Summary:
Santo must investigate a secret conspiracy involving a spy training camp, a brainwashing plot and a kidnapped Nazi scientist.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Operation Atlantis (1965)
Plot Summary:
An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Man On The Spying Trapeze (1966)
Plot Summary:
An American spy travels to Beirut where he's attacked by agents seeking a valuable microfilm.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Operation White Shark (1966)
Plot Summary:
When "The Third Eye" - a criminal organization made up of the world's most vicious killers - kidnaps nuclear scientist Professor Von Kraft, his secret formula for a new atomic weapon that can destroy all human life falls into their evil hands. Making things a tad difficult, however, is that the weapon is located deep beneath the ocean. Nevertheless, the Third Eye plans on experimenting with the device in little more than a week. However, the Secret Service has other ideas and asks "Jerry," their super computer, to locate the best man to stop them: Mark Andrews (RODD DANA), a special forces secret agent who infiltrates the criminal gang under the cover of a robber who just happens to be an expert underwater diver! He also wastes no time romancing all manner of shapely women in the tightest clothes imaginable (when they're wearing more than a modestly placed bed sheet) especially JANINE REYNAUD, the bisexual leader of The Third Eye, who sports a wild wardrobe of very revealing outfits.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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License to Kill (1964)
Plot Summary:
Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying apparatus. An international crime gang is very interested in stealing this equipement to sell it to the higher bidder of lawless nations. Menaced, the scientist, who was friends with Nick Carter's father, calls Nick for help. At Nice airport, Nick Carter escapes death, but that night he is unable to stop Formenter's murder. He suspects Bruno, Formenter's adoptive son, and Tonio, the owner of a bar near Formentier's home. Bruno is actually after Formenter's heritage, and for that he tries to kill Catherine, Formentier's granddaughter. Therefore, Nick Carter finds himself against more than a gang, but he will uncover the plots, in time to break every gangster apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, eurospy
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Assignment Skybolt (1968)
Plot Summary:
An American secret service agent goes to Greece to investigate a stolen hydrogen bomb. It's connected to an antique coin that belonged to his brother...another agent. Now he's tasked with taking his brother out!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966)
Plot Summary:
Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American atomic submarine with sixteen missiles still on board? And why every other scene one, two, ten or more men are trying to kill Malloy in every conceivable way?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, political thriller, spy comedy, 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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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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S.O.S. Operation Bikini (1967)
Plot Summary:
Secret Organizational Service (S.O.S.) is an international crime syndicate, quite successful with their feminine agents operating under the guise of a fashion model agency led by Lady Bristol and her associate Luigi. The International Service is the governmental secret service decided to put a term to SOS's action. An agent has infiltrated SOS - but she is in danger, after sending a coded message to her supervising Inspector. So, agents Alex Dinamo is to join forces with Adriana, and give the undercover agent a hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico, Ecuador
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, spoof
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Coplan Saves His Skin (1968)
Plot Summary:
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan arrives, he is told the woman has been killed, and the trail of the murderer leads to her mad-scientist brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, eurospy
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Danger: Diabolik (1968)
Plot Summary:
One of the great comic book movies of all time from director Mario Bava.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, psychedelic, art house, crime drama, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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French Spies (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ben and Bill are the two worst, completely useless agents - real losers. But who else would you send on a super-difficult top-secret mission? The French have just sold a new high-power M51 rocket to the Russians for crazy money. Unfortunately for them, the rocket was hijacked before they could get it of their hands. However, not just any fool is up to neutralizing this threat, but only the craziest and most stupid of them can cope with such a task.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast, 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 Saint (2017)
Plot Summary:
International master thief, Simon Templar, also known as The Saint, is asked by a desperate rich man to find his kidnapped daughter. However, in addition to evading the authorities, Simon must face a dangerous adversary from his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, entertaining, surprise ending, independent film, detective
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The Karate Killers (1967)
Plot Summary:
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, psychotronic, spoof, double entendre, parody, campy
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xXx: State of the Union (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ice Cube stars as Darius Stone, a thrill-seeking troublemaker whose criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defense George Deckert (played by Willem Dafoe).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, action packed, action adventure, suspense, fast paced, grindhouse
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Secret Agent Fireball (1965)
Plot Summary:
An American CIA agent (Richard Harrison) must find the whereabouts of valuable microfilm that was smuggled over by two Russian scientists who had been hoping to defect.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, eurospy, microfilm
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Men in Black: International (2019)
Plot Summary:
Continuing adventures of the crime fighting duo Jenko and Schmidt.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: China, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: action adventure, psychotronic, action comedy, funny, sweet, epic, saga, hilarious, surprise ending, black comedy
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Double Impact (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, suspense, cult classic, rough, independent film
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 327000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: stylized, witty, humorous, action comedy, light, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, entertaining, clever
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The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
Plot Summary:
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, humorous, not serious, exciting, funny, action comedy, surreal, spoof, hilarious
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Black Widow (2021)
Plot Summary:
Natasha Romanoff, on the run from the government following her disobedience to the Sokovia Accords and for aiding Steve Rogers, finds herself on her own and is forced to deal with some of the red in her ledger.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 415000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspense, epic, anamorphic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, entertaining, sad