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Plot Summary:
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Shock Troops (1967)
Plot Summary:
A French resistance group liberates some German prisoners. Turns out one of them is a spy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political
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Blindfold (1966)
Plot Summary:
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, slang, tension, suspense
Similar in 83%
Who? (1974)
Plot Summary:
After American scientist gets severely injured and scarred in a car crash in USSR, Russians use metal implants to save him. Once back in the States no one can tell if it's really him so a specialist must determine who is under the "mask".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: depressing, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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OSS 117 is Unleashed (1963)
Plot Summary:
The first adventure of OSS 117.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, black and white, eurospy
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Bear Island (1979)
Plot Summary:
A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, independent film, bilingual
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One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)
Plot Summary:
Someone is using cats in experiments to develop a machine that can reverse the aging process, meanwhile a famous scientist (Dr Lancer) has gone missing, only for him to reappear looking 30 years younger. UNCLE agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to investigate the plot in Europe - Illya is sent to London to discover who is abducting cats while Solo travels to Paris where Dr Lancer's daughter is working as a fashion model. They uncover a plot by female members of the fashion business to develop the anti-aging machine for their own use, however the suave THRUSH agent Jordin has other plans. Thus a race begins between UNCLE and THRUSH to take control of the machine.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, campy
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The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
Plot Summary:
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute LetÃcia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, campy
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Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1979)
Plot Summary:
An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, Iran, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
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The Satan Bug (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Satan Bug (1965) is a science fiction film in which a US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, cult classic, action thriller, neo noir, scary, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Escape from East Berlin (1962)
Plot Summary:
Director Robert Siodmak's 1962 film, inspired by true events, is about an East Berlin resident who attempts to escape to West Berlin with his family and girlfriend through a secret underground tunnel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political
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Night Crossing (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, History, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: christian film, political, serious, realistic
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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: Mission for a Killer (1965)
Plot Summary:
A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, eurospy
Similar in 88%
The Living Daylights (1987)
Plot Summary:
James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, saga, exciting, slasher, cult classic, action adventure, spectacular, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Plot Summary:
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, retro, action thriller, serious, surprise ending, epic, tense, thought provoking
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Firefox (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called "Firefox". Naturally, the British are worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon, as rumours say that the jet is indetectable on radar. They send ex-Vietnam War pilot Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal Firefox.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, fast, tense
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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
Similar in 76%
The Double Man (1967)
Plot Summary:
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, political thriller, grindhouse, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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Target (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Texan with a secret past (Gene Hackman) searches Europe with his son (Matt Dillon) after the KGB kidnaps his wife (Gayle Hunnicutt).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, neo noir, cult classic, fast, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy
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The Defector (1966)
Plot Summary:
Professor Bower, an American physicist, is effectively blackmailed by a shady CIA agent named Adams to help the CIA obtain secret microfilm from a defecting Russian scientist. The reluctant Bower travels to East Germany undercover as an antiques collector where he encounters Heinzmann, an East German fellow physicist, who is also a secret agent. Heinzmann is aware of Bower's meeting with Adams and his intention to steal the microfilm, however their mutual respect for one another's tactics complicate the proceedings.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy, microfilm
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The Naked Runner (1967)
Plot Summary:
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, microfilm
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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
Similar in 77%
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Plot Summary:
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief "Oktober" and involved in a dangerous game where each side tries to find out the enemy's headquarters at any price.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, political thriller, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, eurospy
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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
Similar in 86%
The Coldest Game (2019)
Plot Summary:
During 1962's Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: History, Sport, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political, suspense, clever, realistic, inspirational, tricky
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Plot Summary:
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, black and white, suspense, grim, clever, bleak, realistic, talky, political thriller, retro
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Topaz (1969)
Plot Summary:
A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, political thriller, enigmatic, psychological thriller, exciting, retro, art house
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Bridge of Spies (2015)
Plot Summary:
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 324000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, dramatic, tricky, intense, historical drama, serious, entertaining, period piece, suspenseful
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The Courier (2020)
Plot Summary:
Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, scary, touching, political, dramatic, powerful, action drama, informative
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 210000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, clever, tense, confusing, bleak, non-linear, atmospheric, thought provoking, period piece, political