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Plot Summary:
Car explosion in the centre of Moscow. The double agent in the Russian secret services. The international dealer the weapon «under a cap» at the British investigation. The dissident poisoned in London. The monk from Kosovo, rescuing a unique icon. The American rockets in the Eastern Europe. The terrorist shot in Warsaw. The Russian physicist in the centre of political scandal. The dangerous criminal living in Tallinn under an assumed name and under another's person. All is the mad world round them. He is a professor of political science. She is a free artist. And between them a strange feeling ... very similar to love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, serious, tricky, captivating
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Lurk (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lurk is a 2009 Chinese television series based on a spy novel. The series is directed by Jiang Wei.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Love and Punishment (2010)
Plot Summary:
Aşk ve Ceza is a Turkish television drama series that aired in 2010-2011. Nunu Yeşilçay, Murat Yildirim and Feride Çetin starring, the series were shot in Van, Bodrum and Istanbul. In 2011, this series were broadcast also in Croatia in Nova TV. In Serbia, this series is airing from January 8, 2013 in 1PRVA. In Georgia TV Maestro started broadcasting this series on 15 April 2013.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, intense, exciting
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Eterna Magia (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, tense, captivating, novela
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The Princess' Man (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Princess' Man is a 2011 South Korean television series, starring Park Si-hoo, Moon Chae-won, Kim Yeong-cheol, Song Jong-ho, Hong Soo-hyun, and Lee Soon-jae. It is a period drama about the forbidden romance between the daughter of King Sejo and the son of Sejo's political opponent Kim Jong-seo. It aired on KBS2 from July 20 to October 6, 2011 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, dorama, sageuk, historical drama
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Vuslat (2019)
Plot Summary:
Aziz is the sole manager of the holding that was founded by his father and his mother. From the moment he fell in love with Feride, he began to question himself and his life. But there is a lot to be give up for someone in the position of Aziz. Feride; She lives a quiet life with her father, stepmother and siblings. She runs the tailor shop she opened with Faik Süheyla but cannot keep up with the inexhaustible demands of Hasibe and the costs of the children. Feride starts working at a boutique to help her father. Thus, the father and daughter are trying to support the house. Feride witnesses a murder committed by Aziz one night. She is determined to complain to the police. However, Feride learns that her brother Firat was also involved. Aziz is strong enough to crush this girl as a beetle. But Feride doesn't know what to do. In this mixed process, Aziz will fall in love with Feride; Although Feride is attracted to Aziz, her pride will prevent him from approaching Aziz. After accepting their love, they will face this impossibility.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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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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Man of Vengeance (2019)
Plot Summary:
Assuming an alias, the love child of a rich man and his mistress seeks revenge against his stepfamily — until a childhood friend enters his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sultan of My Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mahmud brings Anna to his palace to teach his children French. The Russian ambassador also sends him there with the pressure to 'spy on his country'.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey, Russia
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, captivating, tense, suspense
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Ángel Rebelde (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ángel Rebelde is a 2003 Miami, Florida-based telenovela produced by Fonovideo Productions which aired first on Venevisión in Venezuela. Mexican actors Grettel Valdez and Victor Noriega star as the main ptoragonists while Maritza Rodríguez and Ismael La Rosa star as the main antagonists. The telenovela aired on Univision from February 2 to December 6, 2004. It recently aired on Venevisión Plus in 2012.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Venezuela
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Civil Servant (2019)
Plot Summary:
This is a modern and exciting story about BIA agents in Belgrade who eliminate the most dangerous threats to Serbia behind the eyes of the public on a daily basis and lead the struggle in the labyrinth of domestic and foreign intrigues.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rosario Tijeras (2016)
Plot Summary:
Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, telenovela
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My Own Worst Enemy (2008)
Plot Summary:
My Own Worst Enemy is an American television drama that aired on NBC in 2008. It premiered on October 13 and ended on December 15 after 9 episodes. The series was produced by Universal Media Studios. Jason Smilovic was the executive producer; David Semel was the director and executive producer. The final episode ended with a cliff-hanger, and the major plot lines ended without resolution. The series followed the life of American secret agent Edward Albright and his cover, Henry Spivey, who had no knowledge of his double life. Albright, played by Christian Slater, was implanted with a chip allowing his handlers to physically switch Albright's personality to that of his cover. However, in the pilot episode, there was a malfunction which caused Albright's personalities to switch at random, revealing his secret life to his alias. Henry was then thrown into the highly dangerous life of Edward, with no real way for the two to communicate except through short cell phone video messages. General Motors was a promotional sponsor of the show, and the new SUV model Chevrolet Traverse, along with the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, appeared as cars for the program's characters via a product placement agreement.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, offbeat, fast
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Entangled (2019)
Plot Summary:
The friendship between two middle-aged couples is in jeopardy when one of them dies in a supposed "car accident".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sensual, entertaining
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Sweet Spy (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nam Sang-mi plays widowed police officer Lee Sun-ae who finds herself suddenly immersed into international espionage by Han Yoo-il, an undercover agent. Kang-Jun has recently transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department. He opens an old case involving Sun-ae's past that leads him to an entanglement between the current political/economic powers and their secrets. One of them, oddly enough, being Han Yoo-il. Who is this man? Why is he here?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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American Odyssey (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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La Femme Nikita (1997)
Plot Summary:
La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was first telecast in North America on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for five television seasons—until March 2001. The series was also aired in Canada on the over-the-air CTV Television Network. La Femme Nikita was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries, and it continues to have a strong cult following.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, thrilling, fast, telenovela
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Spy City (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling
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Seni Çok Bekledim (2021)
Plot Summary:
While the dirty secrets of the two families are revealed one by one, the love of Kadir and Ayliz has to pass this test.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Scent of Passion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Every year, Gaviota and her mother arrive at Hacienda Casablanca to pick up the coffee from the second harvest of the year, but they hope that their next visit will be their last, because from now on they will be owners of their own land. However, fate has other plans. Octavio Vallejo, the owner of the hacienda, has just died. Gaviota previously had saved him from a kidnapping. Octavio promised as a reward to give her one hectare of land so that she could grow her own coffee. Trying to get the Vallejo family to honor the agreement, Gaviota meets Sebastián, Octavio's son, and an irrepressible attraction is born between them, a heartbreaking, impossible love, becoming two lovers who belong to different worlds.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Innocence (2021)
Plot Summary:
Masumiyet follows the story of Bahar, a married mother of two, whose life changes drastically after her 19-year-old daughter falls in love with a wrong man. Her daughter Ela's first love is not a college student her age, but her father's 35-year-old boss, who is about to marry someone else. Bahar, who is trying to save her daughter from this wrong relationship, can not prevent what will happen, no matter what she does. An event that occurs on the day of Ela's 19th birthday party, changes the lives of Bahar and that of her family forever!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Agent Hamilton (2020)
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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Totems (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1965 in the midst of the Cold War, Totems follows a French scientist, Francis Mareuil, as he begins working as a spy. While working for the French Secret Service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva, a pianist forced to work for the KGB. A romance blossoms between them but neither can be sure what is an expression of their true feelings, and what is the fruit of political shenanigans….
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period drama
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Fauda (2015)
Plot Summary:
A top Israeli agent comes out of retirement to hunt for a Palestinian militant he thought he'd killed, setting a chaotic chain of events into motion.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, intense, psychological thriller, political, dramatic, thrilling
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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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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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The Americans (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, dramatic, sexy, neo noir, political, dark
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Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
Plot Summary:
The series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII. Stirlitz has worked his way to the very top of the Fascist hierarchy without being caught. However, his "colleagues", top Hitler's officers Borman, Mueller, Schellenberg are beginning to suspect him. Stirlits is constantly walking on the edge between his two identities, sending information to Russia, while skillfully maintaining the appearance of loyalty to fascist regime.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 830 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, semi documentary