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Plot Summary:
The Indian Government suspects that this is the work of some terrorists and assign this case to their best agent Gunmaster G-9 alias Gopinath, who takes charge and begins the investigation, that will lead him to the dark secret world of underground scientists who are quite capable of harnessing nature to make their ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Challenge of the Tiger (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two CIA agents, a kung fu master and a suave womanizer, track the stolen formula for a super-sterility drug from Spain to Hong Kong, battling Neo-Nazi terrorists and a Vietnamese spy ring for its possession.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, cult film
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Shiri (1999)
Plot Summary:
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijacks a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries.Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, stylized, neo noir, action thriller, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, tense
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The Internecine Project (1974)
Plot Summary:
Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Terminate with Extreme Prejudice (1982)
Plot Summary:
Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounters with sweet girls, and macho villains. (Written by Artemis-9, IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Once Upon a Spy (1980)
Plot Summary:
Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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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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Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966)
Plot Summary:
Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American atomic submarine with sixteen missiles still on board? And why every other scene one, two, ten or more men are trying to kill Malloy in every conceivable way?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, political thriller, spy comedy, eurospy
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The Great Spy Chase (1964)
Plot Summary:
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, anthology, spy comedy, cult classic, spoof, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Dick Smart 2007 (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lady Lorraine Lister, a financer of expensive experiments, has discovered a way to obtain pure diamonds by the means of a radiation device. She hires five renowned scientists to participate in additional experiments regarding this new contrivance. However, it soon happens that the device is stolen, and the scientists mysteriously disappear! Agent Dick Smart is called in by the CIA to track down the scientists and recover the device. With the help of incredible gadgets and lots of bravado, he manages to locate the source of an underground operation in Rio De Janeiro: an operation headed by a mysterious man with a speaking device fastened to his throat.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, eurospy
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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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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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The Democratic Terrorist (1992)
Plot Summary:
Hamilton is assigned to infiltrate a terrorist group in West Germany, a part of the Red Army Faction (RAF), that supposedly are planning an operation in Sweden. Hamilton is chosen because of his background in the leftist movement. As a member of the group, he takes part in bank robberies — the preferred way of the RAF to finance their operations. In the end, when all terrorists are in one place, he leads the German Counter-terrorism unit GSG 9 to the location. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Hamilton novels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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The Berlin File (2013)
Plot Summary:
JUNG Jin-soo, a South Korean intelligence agent, comes across an unidentifiable operative, a 'ghost,' while surveilling a North Korean weapons deal in Berlin. The mystery figure is a North Korean secret agent, PYO Jong-seong, whose information cannot be found on any intelligence database. Jung quickly goes after Pyo to unveil his identity and gets himself embroiled in a vast international conspiracy. In the meanwhile, another North Korean operative, DONG Myung-soo, is dispatched to Berlin with a secret agenda to purge Pyo and take control of the North Korean embassy. Dong sets a trap to frame Pyo's wife, RYUN Jung-hee, for treason and tightens the noose around Pyo's neck. Pyo surveils his wife with hopes of clearing accusation against her but he plunges into deeper confusion when he discovers her secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, political, suspense, twisted, realistic
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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 Cold Light of Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, political thriller, action packed, realistic
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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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Detonator (1993)
Plot Summary:
When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijacked train, special agents are dispatched to disarm the deadly device. Ten tons of steel and one ounce of hot plutonium are now riding roughshod through Europe. With time running out, the agents launch a desperate, bullet-packed assault on a deadly moving target piloted by a cold-blooded mercenary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Croatia, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast
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The Foreigner (2003)
Plot Summary:
This story is about a freelance agent (Seagal) who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic, action packed, fast
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OSS 117 - Double Agent (1968)
Plot Summary:
A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, eurospy
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Secret Agent Fireball (1965)
Plot Summary:
An American CIA agent (Richard Harrison) must find the whereabouts of valuable microfilm that was smuggled over by two Russian scientists who had been hoping to defect.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, eurospy, microfilm
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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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Agent Vinod (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhua, RAW Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) is rescued by colleague Rajan (Ravi Kishan) from a rogue Pakistani army officer (Shahbaz Khan). In Russia/Uzbekistan, an ex-KGB Officer is tortured and murdered. In Cape Town, a group of international business tycoons discusses a rumor that the dead KGB officer possessed a nuclear suitcase bomb. In Moscow, Rajan is exposed and shot dead while trying to send a Code Red message to India. In India, the head of RAW sees the incomplete message containing just number 242. Agent Vinod undertakes a globe-trotting secret mission to discover the reason why his colleague, Rajan, was murdered. A series of twists and turns take Vinod across the globe to Morocco and Latvia, Karachi to Delhi and finally London where he discovers the actual conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, patriotic
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Bullet to Beijing (1995)
Plot Summary:
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose side everyone's really on.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA, Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, political thriller, cynical, fast, independent film, eurospy
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To Commit a Murder (1967)
Plot Summary:
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
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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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The November Man (2014)
Plot Summary:
An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action thriller, brutal, visually appealing, clever, political, slasher
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The Serpent (2020)
Plot Summary:
Top special agent Lucinda Kavsky works for a secret part of the CIA. She's given a special assignment but then set up by her own agency.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, anamorphic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Carter (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up missing his memories. Directed by a mysterious voice from a device in his ear, he sets off on a hostage rescue mission rife with danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, twisted, suspense, apocalyptic, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, psychological thriller
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Patriot Games (1992)
Plot Summary:
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, political, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller, rough, serious, realistic, action adventure, anamorphic