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Plot Summary:
A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua (Goo Man-Chung) so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: campy
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Singapore, Singapore (1967)
Plot Summary:
Singapore, Singapore.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: medical horror
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Moon Over Hong Kong (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jake, a disenfranchised special forces agent "in retirement" has been summoned up by the secret service to find and kill an enemy agent named the Black Dahlia.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, gay cinema
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Francisca (2002)
Plot Summary:
An east german agent is forced to infiltrate student movement of 1968 at Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Click (1985)
Plot Summary:
A man, Dr. Fez, is blackmailed into taking a fall for his boss. However, with a cruel invention that he created, Dr. Fez has plans of his own to seek revenge against his blackmailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, cult film
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Cover Girl Models (1975)
Plot Summary:
A fashion photography assignment teams three American models and inadvertently pitches them into the mystery and danger of international espionage, when an invaluable roll of microfilm secreted into one of the girls' fashion gowns, draws them into the violence and intrigue of a spy-vs-counterspy conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Ice Runner (1992)
Plot Summary:
US-agent West travels to Moscow for the CIA in order to buy Russian weapons and to send them to the rebels in Afghanistan. When West gets caught he hides his identity and receives 15 years in a working camp in Siberia as penalty.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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City of Spies (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kindra, an attractive 21 year old politics student in Vienna, has taken on the spying activities of her parents who have disappeared. Kindra steals UN secrets and sells them anonymously over the internet. Her buyer, Hal, is suspicious that his usual source has been replaced by an imposter and when Kindra persuades Hal to pay her in advance for information that she does not possess, the deception triggers an all out hunt, and it's only a matter of time before Hal and his organisation get to her - unless the other side get to her first.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, fun
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Uppdraget (1977)
Plot Summary:
Common political thriller. Swedish representative is sent to an imaginary country in South America where a revolution is erupting. His assignment: to organize and mediate a conference between the government and the revolutionaries. Reading it doesn't seem bad, but watching... things just don't work, it is boring most time. Non-charismatic Thomas Hellberg plays an unsympathetic role, a "perfect" match for the hero. And the good supporting cast can't help. A Swedish production, oddly shot in Portugal, aiming the international market.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Safe (2017)
Plot Summary:
A thriller with a surprise twist about the NSA Deputy Director, who needs a genius plan to save his child from a kidnapper, who wants him to betray the privacy of all US citizens and make him the next Snowden with a devious marketing plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Dark Asset (2023)
Plot Summary:
A charming guy attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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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Trade Routes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set against an Eastern European nation's election, in a country that was the most notorious communist dictatorship, the film charts the paths of five characters; An aging CIA officer; A young attractive economic advisor; The ambitious Bulgarian Prime Minister's chief of staff; An American political consultant; and a retired member of the Bulgarian Communist State Police. These five character destinies intertwine in the weeks leading up to the elections in a fledgling democracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, political drama
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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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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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Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two pretty chorus girls, Cecile and Brigitte, who have been sentenced to prison terms, agree to undertake risky undercover work for Senator Conolly in exchange for their freedom. Investigating the disappearance of well-known personalities, as well as young women, Conolly wants the dancers to get hired by a Canary Islands nightclub to keep tabs on the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Spider in the Web (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Israel, Belgium, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, bleak
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Defense of the Realm (1985)
Plot Summary:
A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government cover-up,Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam the MP's assistant to find out the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political thriller, noir, neo noir, political, cult classic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Thunder Point (1998)
Plot Summary:
Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Assassin (2023)
Plot Summary:
A private military operation invents futuristic microchip tech that enables the mind of an agent to inhabit the body of another person to carry out covert, deadly missions. But when an agent is killed during a secret mission, his wife takes his place in an attempt to bring the man responsible to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1960)
Plot Summary:
It's the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union with the Communists launching a spy satellite that has the Free World leaders in a panic. Fears about the nature of the satellite force the United States to send an agent undercover behind the Iron Curtain to discover what the Soviets have learned. What he finds is the Communists have used the information acquired from their spy satellite to help them perfect a new and even more deadly nuclear weapon.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Embassy (1985)
Plot Summary:
US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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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 MacKintosh Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, political thriller, rough, realistic, stylized, fast
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Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
Plot Summary:
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov (Jason Connery), ex-CIA agent Craig (Michael Sarrazin), and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky (Lev Prygunov). They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, eurospy
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Who's Got the Black Box? (1967)
Plot Summary:
The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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American Roulette (1988)
Plot Summary:
Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Rebirth (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man's life is turned inside out after a visit from his college friend leads him into the unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, melancholic, psychological thriller, intellectual, tension, surprise ending, suspense, psycho film
Similar in 82%
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Plot Summary:
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political thriller, suspenseful, visually stunning, serious, realistic, psychotronic, psychological, exciting, tense, parody
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The Jigsaw Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Jack Strong (2014)
Plot Summary:
A spy thriller telling a historically based story of a man who alone dares to challenge Soviets being in the middle of the communistic system himself. Planning the maneuvers of Warsaw Pact forces he discovers that the American plans of nuclear counterattack against Soviet forces is planned to be executed on Polish territory. Thanks to his determination he starts a long, lonely and psychologically exhausting cooperation with CIA. From that moment the life of his and his family is in danger as one careless move can lead to tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, political, factual