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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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Spy of Orange (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Netherlands are being threatened by a weird terrorist. The only one who can save The Netherlands from this terrorist seems to be Francois. He is a gay couturier who very much looks like the terrorist. They turn out to be twin brothers. Francois takes on the duty to pose as his brother to stop the terrorist activities.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, realistic, not serious, slapstick
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Kidon (2013)
Plot Summary:
"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, fast
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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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First Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Secret Service attempts to prevent an elaborately plotted assassination attempt on the President.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, cliffhanger
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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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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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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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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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Norwegian Ninja (2010)
Plot Summary:
Norwegian Ninja is the true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War. In 1983 the Ninja Force discovers that the sinister NATO force Stay Behind, who take charge in times of war and emergency, are planning a coup-d'état in peacetime. Treholt and the Ninjas see only one solution: a full can of whoop-ass.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, exciting, humorous, not serious, spy comedy, funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Athena: Goddess of War (2010)
Plot Summary:
Athena: Goddess of War is a South Korean espionage television drama series broadcast by SBS in 2010 and a spin-off of 2009's Iris. Budgeted at ₩20 billion like its predecessor, the two series are among the most expensive Korean dramas ever produced. Starring Jung Woo-sung, Cha Seung-won, Soo Ae, and Lee Ji-ah, the series premiered in December 2010 after filming in a number of overseas locations, including Italy, New Zealand, Japan, and the United States. The series is set in the same universe as its predecessor, allowing for select characters from Iris to reprise their roles throughout the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, romantic
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The Vanquisher (2009)
Plot Summary:
After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face her old foes and foil a plot to detonate a bomb in the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
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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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Outside the Law (2002)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent Julie Cosgrove is walking into her most dangerous mission yet.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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No.3 (1997)
Plot Summary:
The movie loosely follows the life of "Gangster No. 3", who doesn't like to be called a "Gangster" and really hates to be called "No. 3". But there's lots of tangents and side stories so it's hard to really say that there's any one focus to the movie... it's got a very fractured structure (hence the confusion).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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S*P*Y*S (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spy comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, not serious, spoof
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The Bodyguard 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
The best agent of Vieng, the country near the boundary of Thailand received the important mission that he had to catch two armed dealers who could be the dangerous for his country.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous
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Dangerous Flowers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Miki, the daughter of a professor and martial arts master is sought after by an organized crime syndicate for her knowledge about the location of a hidden treasure, the Andaman Pearl. Five sexy undercover agents Rose, Lotus, Pouy- sian, Spadix and Hibiscus - known as Chai Lai Angels are enlisted to protect her. However, the Chai Lai Angels are overtaken in an attack, which concludes with Miki being kidnapped. These dangerous flowers must use all of their resources and skills to fight and recover Miki and protect the Andaman Pearl. But, as they soon find out, this mission is unlike any they've encountered before.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, rough, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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April Rain (2014)
Plot Summary:
When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic, independent film
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Twin Daggers (2006)
Plot Summary:
A shady Los Angeles martial arts assassin is hired by a beautiful woman to avenge the death of her parents, who were killed by her evil twin sister. But when the hit man tracks down his target, he finds himself strangely attracted to her. Trapped between his heart and his duty, he ultimately faces a shattering new revelation.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Iris: The Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a nuclear terrorist attack, they are forced to make their final decision and Seunghee's formidable secret is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, serious, realistic
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Secret Reunion (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago a mysterious shooting takes place in Seoul. The after effects of the shooting results in Han-kyu Lee (Song Kang-Ho) losing his job at the NIS (National Intelligence Service). Six years later, Ji-won Song (Kang Dong-Won), an ex North Korean spy. now operates somewhere in the Seoul metropolitan area. As these two men hide their identities and work their particular angles, trouble brews again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, serious, stylized, psychological, noir
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Commitment (2013)
Plot Summary:
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father’s botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In order to save his sister’s life, Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy and infiltrates the South as a teenage defector. While attending high school in the South, he meets another girl named Hye-in, and rescues her when she comes under attack. South Korean Intelligence soon discover Myung-hoon’s activities and begin tracking him, all the while his own government sends a vicious assassin to eliminate him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, sad, scenic, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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On Dangerous Ground (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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First Shot (2002)
Plot Summary:
No one knows why the army base was blown up until the President gets shot there during the memorial service for those killed, but he wasn't the only target.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, realistic
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Sharpshooter (2007)
Plot Summary:
An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, cliffhanger, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Target of Opportunity (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years later, they are out of the CIA game.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast
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The Way of War (2009)
Plot Summary:
Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one fighting for American security and integrity.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, independent film
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D-Day (2013)
Plot Summary:
9 years ago Wali Khan (Irrfan Khan) was sent into Karachi, Pakistan by the Chief of RAW Ashwini Rao (Nasser) to report the activities of The Most Wanted Man in India. 9 days ago Rudra Pratap Singh (Arjun Rampal) Indian Armed Forces, MARCOS unit, Zoya Rehman (Huma Qureshi) RAW Explosives expert, and Aslam, a petty thief from the streets of Mumbai recruited by RAW, infiltrated Pakistan to join Wali Khan and carry out the mission to bring back The Most Wanted Man in India. The man who was going to break all ISI protocol and security and attend his own son's wedding. The man who could on that day be abducted and brought back to India to face justice. 1 day ago everything went according to plan until it all failed. The team sent in to bring The Most Wanted Man in India, did the unthinkable - they carried out the most daring operation and almost got away with it. Almost because, something went horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, exciting, captivating, entertaining, stylized, independent film, action thriller, rough
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My Wife Is a Gangster 3 (2006)
Plot Summary:
When Aryong, the daughter of a triad boss from Hong Kong is accused of killing the boss of a competing triad, she is goes into hiding in Korea. Upon arriving, she is guided by a nimble but loyal Gi-chul and his motley crew, who are assigned to protect her until her return.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China, South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, stylized, crime drama
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Guns & Talks (2001)
Plot Summary:
Guns & Talks is a South Korean film released in 2001. Directed by Jang Jin, it is a comedy about two brothers and their two friends. These four form a group of assassins, who have attracted the attention of a couple of pesky detectives, Sergeant Kim and Inspector Cho.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, witty, cynical, black comedy, crime drama, realistic, semi serious