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Plot Summary:
In a reality TV show created by the U.S. government about spies, audiences go on fake undercover missions, but fact cannot be easily distinguished from fiction.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Fat Buddies (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around a pair of big-boned, bumbling cops who find themselves at the heart of a drug trafficking case. The agent "J" (Zhang Wen) was shot in the head during an A-level mission, causing damage to the intracranial hypothalamus. During the period of rehabilitating, J gradually became a big fat man of three hundred pounds and suffered from severe narcolepsy, but J still considered himself a ace agent. Finally, J received the task again and went to Japan to retrieve the confidential documents. After the file was obtained, J arbitrarily opened the file and decided to continue the task of hiding the organization for the organization, but he fainted in the izakaya. J who woke up in the hospital got to know the security guard Handsome Hao (Bei-Er Bao), Handsome Hao to prove that he is not a waste of nothing to resolutely join the mission. In the process of carrying out the task, the temporary partner has experienced the ridiculous and dangerous crisis of time over and over.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, captivating
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Mother 007 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nina Wenzel used to be an undercover agent. After her sister's death five years ago Nina gets child custody of the three orphans and quits her dangerous job. In her new family-life she manages to retain some of her skills. When Wolf Geiger, the last person Nina imprisoned, escapes, Nina's old skills are needed again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining
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SDU: Sex Duties Unit (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Special Duties Unit (SDU) is an elite paramilitary tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force and is considered one of the world's finest in its role. But being the best carries its own burdens. Like everyone else, they go through troubles with love, with family and with their jobs. And sometimes they get horny. This touching story is about Special Duties Unit Team B and their trip to Macau for a weekend of unadulterated debauchery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy, semi serious
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Spy of Orange (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Netherlands are being threatened by a weird terrorist. The only one who can save The Netherlands from this terrorist seems to be Francois. He is a gay couturier who very much looks like the terrorist. They turn out to be twin brothers. Francois takes on the duty to pose as his brother to stop the terrorist activities.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, realistic, not serious, slapstick
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Kidon (2013)
Plot Summary:
"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, fast
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Number One Gun (1990)
Plot Summary:
Number One Gun.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, spoof, eurospy
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Nirvana Island: The Last 47 Days (2016)
Plot Summary:
The movie depicts the confrontation between younger brother Akira Miyamoto (Shunya Shiraishi) and older brother Atsushi Miyamoto (Ryohei Suzuki) on Higanjima.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Jailbreak (2017)
Plot Summary:
What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force [Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam] gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness [Savin Phillip].
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Cambodia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Robbers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Tang Dynasty, The Robbers tells the story of two robbers' adventures in a seemingly peaceful Bitter Bamboo Village, where they encounter a beautiful woman, a group of soldiers and a village head scheming to kill the duo.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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The Spy Who Never Dies (2022)
Plot Summary:
A world-class spy falls for an unlikely woman and must work out how to build a relationship with a normal person while others around him try and destroy both the relationship and much more.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Queen's Messenger (2001)
Plot Summary:
By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the elite Queen's Messenger corps, Captain Strong must pledge to protect his diplomatic cargo with his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Action
Country: Bulgaria, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, informative
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Secretly Greatly (2013)
Plot Summary:
As a North Korean sleeper cell agent, Ryu-han infiltrates the South and assumes the role of a village idiot in a rural town. He observes the townsfolk and waits patiently for his mission. One day, after 2 years of playing the role of the village idiot, fellow elite spies Hae-rang, posed as a rock star and Hae-jin, posed as an ordinary student, are dispatched to the same town as Ryu-han. He helps the other two spies settle in and teach them how to adjust in the South. There is a sudden drastic political power shift in the North and all three spies receive an urgent and ultimate mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, dorama, realistic
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Naughty Grandma 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
1980, the whole country follows the events of the Moscow Olympics. Vova Rubinstein alone, on the sly, disguises himself as Soviet pop stars and tries to get rich by arranging fake concerts. At one of these concerts, he is exposed by the KGB and recruited as an undercover agent. Now, in order not to go to jail, Vova must fulfill a responsible mission - to find a deadly chemical developed in a secret laboratory on the black market. Vova will have to plunge headlong into the abyss of the spy passions of Moscow in the 80s: to find a chemical, to prevent the undermining of the Olympic Bear, to experience Brezhnev's passionate kiss, and to meet the love of his life ... And all this is in the image of the currency prostitute Louise Karpovna Rubinstein.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, feel good, light, humorous, captivating
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Undercover Duet (2015)
Plot Summary:
Roger Li, the son of the richest man in town, is involved in a car accident which has soon become the talk of the town. The only witness James, nervous and terrified, denies witnessing the accident and seems to withhold the truth. Veteran undercover cop Dream Dragon and James are old time buddies; with an intention to take advantage of their relationship, Dragon approaches James to investigate this suspected substitute case. James’ beloved sister Kwan is born with a serious eye disease. Her only wish before losing her sight totally is for James to realise his dream of being a popular superstar. It is the motivation for James to join the male pageant “Man of China” in hope to win the competition. Meanwhile, James is invited by a renowned director to work abroad on his new international project. However, the shooting period overlaps with the court date of the case. It turns out that everything is controlled by a mastermind with a premeditated intention yet to be revealed….
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Spy: Undercover Operation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chul-soo is one of Korea’s best intelligence agents: he can accomplish any given mission. One day, a mysterious explosion takes place in Seoul. Chul-soo flies to Thailand on a mission to rescue a person who holds clues to the incident. Meanwhile, Young-hee goes on a business trip to Thailand and gets entangled with Chul-soo’s mission. Will he accomplish his mission and save his wife at the same time?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Undercover Brother 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen years ago, Undercover Brother and his younger brother were hot on the heels of the leader of a racist, worldwide syndicate, but accidentally got caught in an avalanche of white snow. After they were discovered and thawed out, Undercover Brother remained in a coma. Now, it is up to his little brother to finish the job they started.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, action comedy, feel good
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Codename: Diablo! (2017)
Plot Summary:
A trio of female secret agents are hired to stop an ultra sadistic villainess and her all in latex S.C.U.B.A Squad frogmen take over the world with the stolen Diablo Death Ray Gun.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Short, Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Blind War (2022)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Spies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kim, a North Korean spy, lives in South Korea for 22 years and is contacted unexpectedly by his superior. His team plans to complete an earlier mission and steal the target's large stockpile of cash.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, rough, serious, 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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Dangerous Flowers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Miki, the daughter of a professor and martial arts master is sought after by an organized crime syndicate for her knowledge about the location of a hidden treasure, the Andaman Pearl. Five sexy undercover agents Rose, Lotus, Pouy- sian, Spadix and Hibiscus - known as Chai Lai Angels are enlisted to protect her. However, the Chai Lai Angels are overtaken in an attack, which concludes with Miki being kidnapped. These dangerous flowers must use all of their resources and skills to fight and recover Miki and protect the Andaman Pearl. But, as they soon find out, this mission is unlike any they've encountered before.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, rough, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Princess and Seven Kung Fu Masters (2013)
Plot Summary:
During the early years of the Republic era, in the North-East region of China, the people are suffering from the power struggle among the local Warlords, bandits, and Japanese invaders. Warlord Lam (Sammo Hung), is not a leader of great vision, but stands firm in his own beliefs. The only paradise within the region is 'Lucky Town', the one place where no one dared to attack as it was protected by the seven kung fu masters who have resided there. When young patriots, Yan Fang (Rose Chan) who disguised herself as a man, and Howard Luo (Dennis To), infiltrate Tiger's Den at night trying to steal the code book fail in their mission and tries to run, only Yan survives and is rescued by Cheryl. Mistaking Yan as a man, Cheryl falls for Yan. She then brings Yan to Lucky Town and begs the Seven Masters to cure Yan. Cheryl and the Seven Masters are then told of the secret plan by the Japanese, and together, they resolve to fight against Tiger Den and save Warlord Lam.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Girls Gone Gangsta (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, mockbuster, semi serious, neo noir, sex comedy, campy
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MacGruber (2021)
Plot Summary:
After rotting in prison for over a decade, America's ultimate hero and uber patriot MacGruber is finally released. His mission: to take down a mysterious villain from his past—Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth. With the entire world in the crosshairs, MacGruber must reassemble his old team in order to defeat the forces of evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny
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The Chemist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gritty action thriller about an aging assassin who is double crossed by his employer when he refuses to assassinate a woman he just met. On the run; Steele becomes the next target in this fast-paced battle, assassin vs. assassin, until he is surprised by a secret that changes everything he thought he knew. To complicate matters even more he begins to fall in love with his would-be target.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Treadstone (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Treadstone project, having created super spy Jason Bourne, turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, intense, action adventure
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
Plot Summary:
Five Eyes, the international intelligence agency, recruits MI6 agent Orson Fortune to prevent the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, China, Indonesia, Turkey
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: entertaining, captivating, satirical, exciting, humorous, action comedy, action thriller, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
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EP/Executive Protection (2015)
Plot Summary:
First as Special Forces and then as a part of the elite world of Executive Protection, Max Webber has dedicated his life and career to protecting others. Working for one of the richest men in the world, Max finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy of betrayal that has spanned the globe and threatens to cost him everything.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Maniac Hero (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves. As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones” are covert operatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, parody, spoof, captivating, action comedy, tense, feel good, spy comedy