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Plot Summary:
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, eurospy
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The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (1984)
Plot Summary:
An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, spoof, parody
Similar in 85%
The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
Plot Summary:
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, twisted, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Agent 8 3/4 (1964)
Plot Summary:
A young man travels to Prague for his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, political thriller, spy comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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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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Madame Sin (1972)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, campy
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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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Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971) is a comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Rosalind Russell and Darren McGavin, and released by United Artists. This was Russell's last theatrical film role, with one TV movie in 1972. Russell adapted the novel The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, written by Dorothy Gilman under the pseudonym C. A. McKnight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, hilarious, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Delta Factor (1970)
Plot Summary:
Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to rescue a scientist from a dictator-run island, disguised as a drug dealer with another agent posing as his wife, while simultaneously plotting to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Silver Case (2012)
Plot Summary:
In TInseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator' hatches a plan to undermine the future success of his shady arch rival, the 'Master' in more ways than one. His plot begins with the simple delivery of a silver briefcase. But nothing is simple in Hollywood. The case goes missing, which sets off a chain of events that are categorically not part of the plan. The Senator engages the best of his team to locate the package, but doesn't count on the tenacity of two thugs who now have the mystery prize in their curious possession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, independent film, biting
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The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, retro, political thriller, black comedy, exciting, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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Crossplot (1969)
Plot Summary:
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, eurospy
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The 39 Steps (2008)
Plot Summary:
Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him with a coded notebook, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must crack himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, clever, serious, suspenseful, period piece, crime thriller, surprise ending, captivating, realistic, period drama
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Hopscotch (1980)
Plot Summary:
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, fast, independent film, exciting, funny
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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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Why Me? (1990)
Plot Summary:
A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, absurd, independent film, realistic, suspenseful
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
Plot Summary:
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Fathom (1967)
Plot Summary:
While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in international intrigue when Scottish spy Douglas Campbell recruits her to help him on a secret mission. Before long, Fathom realizes that no one around her, including the mysterious Peter Merriweather, can easily be trusted, leading to various adventures that involve bull fighting, beaches and, of course, romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, grindhouse, exciting, parody, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, fast, surprise ending
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OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
Plot Summary:
French top secret agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, is sent to Rio to buy microfilms from a running nazi. To do so, he has to team up with Mossad secret services.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, not serious, spoof, spy comedy, entertaining, parody, witty, eurospy, microfilm
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spoof, humorous, parody, light, suspense, talky, stylized, not serious, funny, witty
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One Spy Too Many (1966)
Plot Summary:
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the meglomanic Alexander (Rip Torn) from committing the world's greatest crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, psychotronic, spoof, spy comedy, campy
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The Wrecking Crew (1968)
Plot Summary:
When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret agent Matt Helm to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, spy comedy, technicolor, cult classic, crime thriller, spoof
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The Spy with My Face (1965)
Plot Summary:
Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, psychotronic, spoof, eurospy, campy
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Modesty Blaise (1966)
Plot Summary:
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, stylized, spoof, spy comedy, exciting, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Carry on Pimpernel (1967)
Plot Summary:
The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes "the black fingernail", scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, sex comedy, exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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1½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, ironic, absurd, exciting, realistic, semi serious, idiotic
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Spymate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Amelia, a young genius and daughter of a top secret agent, unknowingly invents a contraption that makes her the target of an evil scientist.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating
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Dadnapped (2009)
Plot Summary:
Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry, only her competition is a fictional character in her father's best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is "dadnapped" by a group of overzealous fans, it's up to Melissa to help him by tapping her inner superhero.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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To Commit a Murder (1967)
Plot Summary:
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Plot Summary:
In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy, eurospy
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Twelve Chairs (1971)
Plot Summary:
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, exciting, clever, witty, cynical, not serious, slapstick