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Plot Summary:
Carl Hamilton has just returned to Sweden after many years of secret education in the US when Stockholm is shaken by a series of terrorist attacks. Hamilton is assigned to assist the Swedish intelligence service in their pursuit of the guilty, but at the same time works as a double agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, action thriller
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Death of a Juror (1995)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is found murdered in a small village. Police inspector Sandor Gross leads the investigation. Gross' wife died in an accident and he is alone with his young daughter. He soon discovers that the woman was murdered by her husband, juror Ernst Ljungberg. Ljungberg is sentenced, but Gross soon discovers that the case wasn't that easy to solve.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags:
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The Endless Game (1989)
Plot Summary:
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags:
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The Dogs of Riga (1995)
Plot Summary:
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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To Skin a Spy (1966)
Plot Summary:
A spy story set in Vienna.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: eurospy, microfilm
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The Rhinemann Exchange (1977)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 300 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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Moscow Noir (2018)
Plot Summary:
In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker, Tom Blixen, into a battle with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and their private armies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Poland, Lithuania, Finland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense
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Ankara (2021)
Plot Summary:
National Intelligence Organization members are always ready to serve to destroy the enemies of Turkey.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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La unidad (2020)
Plot Summary:
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: political, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, heroic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, entertaining
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Greyzone (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a brilliant drone engineer, Victoria, is taken hostage in her own home, a series of dangerous events are set into motion in this high octane thriller.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, disturbing, brutal, detective
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Whiskey Cavalier (2019)
Plot Summary:
A pair of CIA agents embark on missions to save the world, but have to put up with each other first.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, humorous, detective, action adventure
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Lawless Lawyer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Driven by the desire to avenge his mother, a former gangster turned lawyer uses both his fists and the loopholes in law to fight against those with absolute power.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful
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The Night Agent (2023)
Plot Summary:
While monitoring an emergency line, a vigilant FBI agent answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, political drama
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Crisis (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Washington's most powerful players are pulled into an international conspiracy, an unlikely puppeteer will bring everyone from CEOs to The President of the United States to their knees by threatening the things they hold most dear.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, political, entertaining, detective, action adventure, realistic
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Slow Horses (2022)
Plot Summary:
This quick-witted spy drama follows a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, tense, disturbing, funny, crime thriller, thrilling
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Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Plot Summary:
Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino, Academy and Golden Globe Award winner Anjelica Huston and Stephen Dorff star in this nail-biting tale of action and intrigue about members of an elite undercover team who race against time to locate the source of a deadly virus threatening the lives of millions of Americans.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disaster movie
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Caliphate (2020)
Plot Summary:
National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistent who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - the true path. Kalifat is a thriller about the intermingled fates of five young women who get caught up in the seducing and destroying force of religious fundamentalism.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, slasher, dramatic, masterpiece
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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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Deep State (2018)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may mean he has no life to go back to.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, action adventure, interesting
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Berlin Station (2016)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller, an undercover agent at the CIA station in Berlin, Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, action adventure, mind blowing, interesting
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Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, rough, realistic
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Condor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young CIA analyst Joe Turner has his idealism tested when he learns that the CIA has been using an algorithm he developed to spy on American citizens, leading the organization to a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions. Inspired by Sydney Pollack’s 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, erotic, action adventure, political thriller
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Allegiance (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when it's revealed that his parents, Mark and Katya, are covert Russian spies deactivated decades ago. But today the Kremlin has re-enlisted them into service as they plan a terrorist operation inside the U.S. border that will bring America to its knees.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, interesting
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The Bureau (2015)
Plot Summary:
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, political thriller, serious, suspenseful, intelligent, interesting, french noir, political drama
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Plot Summary:
Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst MI5 agent John Preston attempts to prevent it's detonation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, political, philosophical, political thriller, cult classic, realistic
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King's Game (2004)
Plot Summary:
Starting a new job as a political journalist at a leading newspaper, Ulrik Torp witnesses a brutal struggle for power in the Midparty's ranks -- a struggle that coincides with the charismatic party leader's involvement in a near fatal car accident. A flurry of lies and media speculation surrounds the incident. Gradually, Ulrik unearths a ruthless conspiracy involving the incumbent prime minister.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, political
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Angel Has Fallen (2019)
Plot Summary:
Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, humorous, intense, captivating, cliffhanger, clever, political, saga
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Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018)
Plot Summary:
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 170000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, intellectual, action adventure, political, anime, crime thriller, suspenseful
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Jason Bourne (2016)
Plot Summary:
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 239000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Spain, Japan, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, captivating, intense, action adventure, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, action thriller, political
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The Ipcress File (1965)
Plot Summary:
This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies introducing the sly, dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer. The story, centers on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder and finds a traitor is operating at the heart of the secret service. Will the mysterious 'Ipcress File' reveal who the traitor is?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, enigmatic, clever, realistic, cynical, retro