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Plot Summary:
The plot of this film has a young beautiful spy from North Korea going south to capture another rogue spy. She goes undercover at Burger King and soon she's battling with her co-workers for the affections of the local boys, dealing with a culture clash between North and South, and a very cute young man who's posted pictures of her on a website of local "angels" possibly blowing her cover.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
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North Korean Guys (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two friends accidentally drift from North Korea into South Korea after falling asleep during a fishing trip. Broke and unable to get home, they enter a singing contest whose grand prize is a trip to North Korea!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
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Spy Myung-wol (2011)
Plot Summary:
Han Myung-wol is a North Korean spy ordered to infiltrate South Korea and kidnap popular actor/singer Kang Woo. Instead she falls in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Fox Hunt (1996)
Plot Summary:
Movie cut together from the videogame by the same name, only released in europe.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Oh! My God (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eun-joo falls for playboy Jung-hwan after he rescues her from drowning, and vows to make him her man. One thing leads to another, and they had a one night stand. Several years later, Jung-hwan is still living the high life while Eun-joo is working as a prosecutor. When they eventually cross paths, she reveals that he's the father of her twins, and tries to make him grow up and take responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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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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Red Family (2013)
Plot Summary:
A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min
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Gunpowder (1986)
Plot Summary:
Debra Burton plays an evil genius trying to put economic rains on the world. Martin Potter and David Gullium are two spies are on a mission to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Agent X44 (2007)
Plot Summary:
The plot revolves around a secret agency with Reserve Agent King Aguila tasked to recover the Philippines' most important artifact. The artifact is the bolo of Lapu-lapu which he used to kill Magellan in 1521.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 93 min
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Pratiggya (1975)
Plot Summary:
Truck driver Ajit Singh find out from his foster mother before her death how his biological family were mercilessly massacre by a bandit named Bharat Thakur. He then takes a pledge to avenge their death and travel to Dinapur village where Bharat is holed up; en-route he comes to the assistance of a half-dead police inspector who was ambushed by Bharat. Once in the village he decides to impersonate the inspector and converts a liquor den into a police station. He then seeks assistance from some rowdy male villagers by making them police officers so that he can easily target Bharat and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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Romantic Warriors (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of deadly assassins kidnap a hostage in the hope of getting a high ransom but when they manage to lose themselves in a forest and end up spending the night in a haunted house they manage to disrupt the plans of the ghosts to ascend to heaven. The assassins hatch a plan to solve the problem but in doing so reveal themselves to be incompetent, so the ghosts decide to give them some training themselves….
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Okay Madam (2020)
Plot Summary:
A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical
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Hitman: Agent Jun (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jun is a top agent of the National Intelligence Service who can strike down dozens of terrorists in one fell swoop. Disenchanted with his life, Jun disguises his death and succeeds in leaving the NIS to lead a normal life as a family man and fulfill his dream of becoming a webtoon artist. However, his unexciting webtoons are ignored by readers and even his wife. Depressed and angry at himself, Jun suddenly draws a webtoon of his past as a secret agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous
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The Beast And The Beauty (2005)
Plot Summary:
An unattractive guy and a beautiful blind girl are in love. But their relationship is turned upside down when she regains her eyesight and he doesn't want to show her his face.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy
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Marrying the Mafia 2: Enemy-in-Law (2005)
Plot Summary:
The oldest son of the White Tiger Gang is pressured by his family to settle down and get married; but when he finds the perfect girl, she turns out to be a state prosecutor for crimes of violence, specifically gangster related. The district attorney is a look-a-like of the gangster's former fiancee who died getting hit by a truck. Their feelings develop for each other but her co-worker turns out to like her as well. She does not like him so the latter turns to the darker side of the law, by conspiring with the rival Axe Gang. Unfortunately for him, the mafia son has more that a few tricks up his sleeve and gets support from his dim-witted brothers and henchman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
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The Spies Who Loved Me (2020)
Plot Summary:
Is a suspenseful romantic comedy about a woman who inadvertently gets caught up in the world of espionage. Kang Ah Reum, a wedding dress designer who gets married twice, to two husbands who both harbor many secrets. Kang Ah Reum’s first husband Jun Ji Hoon is a charming and unpredictable secret agent who works for Interpol. Meanwhile, her second husband Derek Hyun is a highly intelligent corporate spy with a competitive streak.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Espionage Tonight (2017)
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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From the Orient with Fury (1965)
Plot Summary:
A scientist who has invented a weapon capable of disintegrating solid matter is kidnapped by a criminal gang, which intends to sell the scientist and his weapon to the highest bidder. A secret agent and the scientist's daughter set out to track down the kidnappers and rescue the scientist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, grindhouse, spy comedy, eurospy
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Confidential Assignment (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, disturbing, intense, semi serious, detective
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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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Poongsan (2011)
Plot Summary:
Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, romantic, touching, serious
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My Girlfriend Is an Agent (2009)
Plot Summary:
Disguised as a travel agent, “Su-ji” is a government spy with six years’ experience who can’t reveal her career to her boyfriend “Jae-joon.” After she lies again, her boyfriend breaks up with her and leaves without notice, leaving her struggling alone with her sadness. Three years later, while chasing an industrial spy in disguise as a cleaning lady, she happens to run into Jae-joon. He’s become an international certified accountant, and seeing him throws her feelings into doubt.Lying is part of the job, secrecy is the name of the game in "My Girlfriend is an Agent".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, spy comedy, romantic, romantic comedy, stylized
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, weird
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L'opération Corned Beef (1991)
Plot Summary:
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody, campy
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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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The Suspect (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dong-chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover their corpses. He soon finds out that his colleague was behind the killing and defects to the South in search of his nemesis. He looks for him during the day, and works as a temp driver at night and as a personal driver for Chairman PARK. One night the chairman is attacked and killed by an assassin, but not before handing over a pair of glasses to Dong-chul. He is now on the run again, accused of the chairman’s murder by the intelligence service, while trying to uncover the secret contained inside the glasses. Little did he know that depending on who ultimately gains control of the secret, it could either become a national threat or treasure.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, realistic, tense, political, twisted, rough, suspenseful
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Steel Rain (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former agent from the North Korean intelligence and a senior member of the South Korean security services conduct a secret mission to prevent the breakout of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: suspense, political thriller, psychological, tense, captivating, political, scenic, perverse
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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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Sweet Spy (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nam Sang-mi plays widowed police officer Lee Sun-ae who finds herself suddenly immersed into international espionage by Han Yoo-il, an undercover agent. Kang-Jun has recently transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department. He opens an old case involving Sun-ae's past that leads him to an entanglement between the current political/economic powers and their secrets. One of them, oddly enough, being Han Yoo-il. Who is this man? Why is he here?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Finding Mr. Destiny (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man sets up the First Love Agency to help people locate their long-lost first love. But then he ends up falling in love with his first client.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, melancholic, romantic comedy
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This Means War (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, buddy comedy, sexy, funny, feel good, sweet, absurd, cute, teen, light