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Plot Summary:
A U.S. government built flying saucer is launched into space on a top secret test flight, but is brought down by exiled ruler of an outlaw nation who uses a remote control device to cause the ship to land at his secret base in Mexico. Agent Matt Helm is assigned to find the saucer and has to contend with an enemy agent and an Arab assassin.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, psychotronic, spy comedy, psychedelic, grindhouse, rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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Operation Kid Brother (1967)
Plot Summary:
The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: parody, grindhouse, spy comedy, psychedelic, humorous, realistic, not serious, psychotronic, spoof, eurospy
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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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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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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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Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Plot Summary:
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, spy comedy, psychotronic, offbeat, witty, not serious, light, sexy
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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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Murderers' Row (1966)
Plot Summary:
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, retro, spoof, grindhouse, cult classic, parody, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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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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CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
Plot Summary:
Movie Info When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up and stop the madman from destabilizing the world in the feature directorial debut of action icon Lorenzo Lamas. CIA Agent Mark Graver (Lamas) was living a quiet life when word came down that a government facility had been breached and a valuable device stolen. Now forced to team with former terrorist Alexa (Kathleen Kinmont) to retrieve the guidance system from international terrorist Franz Kluge (John Savage).
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Silencers (1966)
Plot Summary:
Matt Helm (Dean Martin) is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, spoof, grindhouse, spy comedy, esoteric, crime thriller, parody, independent film, exciting, humorous
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The Detonator (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, suspense
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Ballistica (2009)
Plot Summary:
A man has been trained in a deadly form of hand-to-hand combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one of the few Americans who has perfected it, which makes him the CIA's best weapon against International Terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast
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Overkill (1996)
Plot Summary:
American Police officer Jack Hazard heads for South America after being ordered to take time off by his boss after a raid goes bad. Once there, however, he finds himself caught up with a stranger wanted by the government, and soon ends up in prison. He and his unwanted companion escape, and now Jack must try to get back to safety while being hunted down by an iron-fisted tyrant.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Critical Mass (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a politician is touring the plant and videotaping his comments regarding the closing. A terrorist group led by Samson gets inside the gates, with their ultimate goal the detonation of a nuclear bomb inside the plant. After local policemen and the other plant workers are killed, Jeffers and Janine alone must confront and halt Samson and his terrorist squad. Written by Ken Miller.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, suspense, captivating, exciting, touching, fast, cult film
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The Karate Killers (1967)
Plot Summary:
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, psychotronic, spoof, double entendre, parody, campy
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In Like Flint (1967)
Plot Summary:
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 90 seconds while golfing with the president. Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: spoof, exciting, parody, humorous, witty, grindhouse, spy comedy, psychedelic, not serious, fast
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Our Man Flint (1966)
Plot Summary:
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, grindhouse, exciting, witty, spy comedy, visually stunning, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Bad Company (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, suspenseful, action comedy, semi serious, funny, entertaining, action packed, spy comedy, realistic
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True Lies (1994)
Plot Summary:
Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government. For years, he has kept his job from his wife, but is forced to reveal his identity and try to stop nuclear terrorists when he and his wife are kidnapped by them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 276000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, action packed, action comedy, semi serious, funny, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, scary
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Flight of Fury (2007)
Plot Summary:
John, is sent in to recover a stolen Stealth Bomber. His trusty sidekick Rojar and John's ever faithful Jessica, fight the rebel forces of Banansistan, led by the vivacious Ellianna.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, intense, fast
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Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Storm Catcher (1999)
Plot Summary:
A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered several men and stolen the plane. Then try to murder his wife and take his daughter prisoner. Threatening to kill his daughter if he doesn't help, he appears trapped. However, his best friend who is the plane's computer specialist has a few tricks up his sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, independent film, bleak, fast
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The Defender (2004)
Plot Summary:
The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Connors' War (2006)
Plot Summary:
They'll never see him coming... It's Personal. It's War. A blinded ex special agent is given his sight back by a special serum in order for him to stop a nuke that's hidden somewhere in the city. Things are just starting to complicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bloody, intense, action packed
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The Tuxedo (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out of commission in an explosive accident, Jimmy puts on the tux and soon discovers that this extraordinary suit may be more black belt than black tie. Paired with a partner as inexperienced as he is, Jimmy becomes an unwitting secret agent.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, action comedy, not serious, exciting, funny, action packed, satirical, spy comedy, spoof, cult classic
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Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998)
Plot Summary:
Marvel's hard-boiled hero is brought back to fight the menace of Hydra after exiling himself in the Yukon since the end of the Cold War. The children of the former Hydra head, Baron Von Stucker, have taken charge of the terrorist organization. Under the lead of his vicious daughter, Viper, Hydra has seized a deadly virus and threatens the destruction of America.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, epic, fast, surprise ending, campy
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Cyber-Tracker 2 (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Secret Service agent (Wilson) battles an arms dealer who is creating a cyborg army.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tech noir, independent film, futuristic, fast
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The Nude Bomb (1980)
Plot Summary:
The KAOS organisation has developed a bomb that can dissolve all clothing. Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil this evil plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, spoof, melancholic, satirical, not serious, spy comedy, fast, psychotronic, funny
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The Avengers (1998)
Plot Summary:
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: stylized, funny, suspense, humorous, semi serious, fast, sexy, clever, unusual plot structure, melancholic