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Plot Summary:
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film, eurospy
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Sebastian (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, eurospy
Similar in 82%
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Plot Summary:
The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: surreal, eurospy
Similar in 78%
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
Similar in 82%
An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Plot Summary:
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 79%
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
Plot Summary:
Spy accidentally gets an ancient treasure. Several corrupt groups try to steal it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, eurospy
Similar in 78%
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
Similar in 78%
Target for Killing (1966)
Plot Summary:
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Italy, Austria, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: eurospy
Similar in 80%
Top Secret (1967)
Plot Summary:
Top Secret is a 1967 Italian-Spanish Eurospy film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Gordon Scott.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, eurospy
Similar in 88%
Hammerhead (1968)
Plot Summary:
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, eurospy
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The Spy Killer (1969)
Plot Summary:
Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track down a book containing a list of government agents who are operating covertly in Red China. The reluctant spy discovers that he can't completely trust anyone in this endeavor--not even his former chief.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: eurospy
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 87%
Red Dragon (1965)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent (Stewart Granger) goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: eurospy
Similar in 75%
Ring of Spies (1964)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: noir, black and white, independent film, eurospy
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008: Operation Exterminate (1965)
Plot Summary:
The British Secret Service sends agent 006 (Alberto Lupo) to Cairo, to collaborate with an American colleague in searching for a stolen anti-radar device. Arriving in Egypt, he finds that agent 008 is actually an attractive female (played by Ingrid Schoeller). But they soon find out that the assignment won’t be a picnic, as a criminal mastermind named Kemp has sent his henchmen out to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy, Egypt
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: eurospy
Similar in 82%
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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Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977)
Plot Summary:
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: microfilm
Similar in 80%
The Dirty Game (1965)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. intelligence general (Robert Ryan) recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet (Henry Fonda), French and Italian (Vittorio Gassman) spies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: anthology, retro, independent film, eurospy, microfilm
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Secret Weapons (1985)
Plot Summary:
Hamilton plays a young Russian girl recruited to be a sex spy, seducing men and catching them in compromising situations so they can be blackmailed. The problems start when she falls in love with one of her targets, and must figure out how to avoid the constant surveillance and defect.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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OSS 117 - Double Agent (1968)
Plot Summary:
A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, eurospy
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Come Spy with Me (1967)
Plot Summary:
Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying to investigate the mysterious murders of two colleagues before an important meeting between the world's most powerful leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 86%
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
Similar in 76%
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:
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 82%
The Sell Out (1976)
Plot Summary:
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Israel
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, poliziottesco
Similar in 86%
Some May Live (1967)
Plot Summary:
During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her correspondent husband coerces her to pass information to him and the Viet Cong.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 76%
The Innocent (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman who will take him on the dark side of evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexual, political thriller, independent film, exciting, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
A Spy Among Friends (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 90%
Pascali's Island (1988)
Plot Summary:
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, independent film, period drama
Similar in 85%
The Executioner (1970)
Plot Summary:
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky, suspense, eurospy
Similar in 80%
The Ipcress File (1965)
Plot Summary:
This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies introducing the sly, dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer. The story, centers on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder and finds a traitor is operating at the heart of the secret service. Will the mysterious 'Ipcress File' reveal who the traitor is?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, enigmatic, clever, realistic, cynical, retro