Best movies like Once Upon a Spy
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Plot Summary:
Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Mister Deathman (1983)
Plot Summary:
Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, eurospy
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Modesty Blaise (1982)
Plot Summary:
Pilot for a never-made TV series based upon the popular comic strip character.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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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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Licensed to Love and Kill (1979)
Plot Summary:
A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, independent film, spoof, eurospy
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The London Connection (1979)
Plot Summary:
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped on his arrival in London, car chases, foot chases, air chases, British secret service and a couple of American tourist caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wardaat (1981)
Plot Summary:
The Indian Government suspects that this is the work of some terrorists and assign this case to their best agent Gunmaster G-9 alias Gopinath, who takes charge and begins the investigation, that will lead him to the dark secret world of underground scientists who are quite capable of harnessing nature to make their ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Terminate with Extreme Prejudice (1982)
Plot Summary:
Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounters with sweet girls, and macho villains. (Written by Artemis-9, IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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A Man Called Sloane (1979)
Plot Summary:
A Man Called Sloane is an American secret agent adventure television series that aired on NBC during the 1979-1980 television season. It was a Woodruff Production in association with QM Productions, and became the final series produced by Quinn Martin's company to debut. The series starred Robert Conrad as Thomas R. Sloane III, a freelance spy who takes on occasional assignments for UNIT, a secret American intelligence operation run by "The Director," played by Dan O'Herlihy. The secret entrance to UNIT headquarters was through a toy store. KARTEL was the evil secret organization that was UNIT's nemesis. Aiding Sloane's missions was Torque, his deadly right-hand man played by Ji-Tu Cumbuka. Torque had a mechanical hand with interchangeable parts that often helped during their assignments. The pair were also assisted by "Effie", a computer voiced by Michele Carey. A Man Called Sloane was an amalgam of elements from numerous spy series of the previous 15 years, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, and Conrad's own The Wild Wild West. One of the more expensive series produced during the season, it failed to gain an audience and was cancelled after 12 episodes were broadcast.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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A Man Called Dagger (1968)
Plot Summary:
An agent finds himself pitted against a former Nazi who has a plan to become ruler of the world through mind control.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
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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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Foreign Exchange (1970)
Plot Summary:
A former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Helicopter Spies (1968)
Plot Summary:
The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, parody, psychotronic, spoof, campy
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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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Dick Smart 2007 (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lady Lorraine Lister, a financer of expensive experiments, has discovered a way to obtain pure diamonds by the means of a radiation device. She hires five renowned scientists to participate in additional experiments regarding this new contrivance. However, it soon happens that the device is stolen, and the scientists mysteriously disappear! Agent Dick Smart is called in by the CIA to track down the scientists and recover the device. With the help of incredible gadgets and lots of bravado, he manages to locate the source of an underground operation in Rio De Janeiro: an operation headed by a mysterious man with a speaking device fastened to his throat.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, eurospy
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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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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Plot Summary:
A golden bullet has 007 engraved on it as it smashes into the secret service headquarters. The bullet came from the professional killer Scaramanga who has yet to miss a target and James Bond begins a mission to try and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sexy, exciting, humorous, saga, retro, slasher, cult classic, action adventure, colorful, suspenseful
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Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966)
Plot Summary:
The head (Wendell Corey) of the Human Aetiological Relations Machine pits an agent (Mark Richman) against a flesh-to-fungus spore gun.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, psychedelic, parody, humorous
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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
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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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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:
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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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Agent provocateur (1998)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 South Korea, a female North Korean spy integrates herself as a housekeeper for U.S. military officer to steal classified documents, but soon worries about her cover when she falls for the teenage son of the officer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, campy
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The Zone (1995)
Plot Summary:
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous tyrant Lothar Krasna.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Assassination (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, political, cult classic, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, political thriller, dark comedy
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The Peacemaker (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, political thriller, psychological, cult classic, visually stunning, action drama, neo noir, rough, bleak
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Dying of the Light (2014)
Plot Summary:
Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bahamas, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, cult classic
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Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation (2012)
Plot Summary:
Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudden deadly attack by a well drilled group of mercenaries of unknown clients. Hamilton escapes the massacre, but the rockets have disappeared without a trace.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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The Operative (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspense, powerful
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense, suspense, entertaining, action adventure, action thriller, clever, political thriller