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Plot Summary:
Can a young woman prove her loyalty to her country and her family? Lan Yan Zhi is a privileged banker’s daughter in Shanghai and a student activist who mistakenly comes into possession of a letter from the Japanese Army in 1937. She gets misunderstood for a spy by her crush, Zhou Yu Hao, an upstanding officer in the Chinese Army. To prove her innocence, Yan Zhi agrees to infiltrate the home of her best friend, Feng Man Na, and help Yu Hao track down a mysterious “Mister Traitor.” But what will Yan Zhi do when the search leads to a member of her own family?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, History
Country: China
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, costume drama
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Winner (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1941, Nazi Germany declares war against the Soviet Union. Given that Manchukuo's loyalties lie with Cheng Tian, the Russians are caught in a situation where they face threats on all sides. Their intelligence agency devises a long-term plan in secret. Communist spy Tang Fei (Liu Yunlong) receives a mission to infiltrate the enemy by pretending to be one of their own. At the Security Bureau, he crosses paths with Cai Meng (Han Chae Young), a woman determined to fight against the Japanese regime. They gain each other's trust as they try to outsmart the enemy within their own territory.
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Genere: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Mercury (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action
Country: Egypt
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Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Code Name: Foxfire (1985)
Plot Summary:
Code Name: Foxfire is an American television series that aired on NBC in 1985. The series stars Joanna Cassidy, Robin Johnson and Sheryl Lee Ralph as a trio of unorthodox female government agents performing secret missions for the brother of the president of the United States.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Resistance Fighter (2019)
Plot Summary:
Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Eternal Wave (2017)
Plot Summary:
Eternal Wave 密战 is a Chinese film set during the anti-Japanese occupation era starring Aaron Kwok, Zhao Li Ying and Zhang Han. It follows the main protagonist Lin Xiang who is a spy working underground to reestablish what was destroyed ruing the Battle of Shanghai. He meets a simple yet patriotic young lady who becomes his partner as they infiltrate the enemy as a couple. Apart from that, they cross paths with Liang Dong, a man whose motives are unclear.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Autumn Cicada (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of the show sets in the war period of modern China and mainly focuses on a spy of CPC called Ye Chong who was using the spy code Cicada of Autumn.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Drawing Sword (2005)
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During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chen Geng is the commander of the 386th brigade, part of the 129th division of the Eighth Route Army. Subordinate to Chen is Li Yun Long, who leads his regiment for the fight against the Japanese invaders. Although rash and rough in personality, Li Yun Long possesses brilliant military skills, which he carries with him from the war against the Japanese to the Chinese Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Arsenal Military Academy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Xie Xiang disguises herself as a man in order to attend military school, where she and her classmates become embroiled in a series of tale-worthy events. After an academic career that wins her classmates’ and instructors’ respect, Xie sets out for China’s northeast to battle with Japanese forces that have rallied under a newly returned Chamber of Commerce president. As conspiracies and traps mount against her side, Xie will have to prove her valor in battle at last.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Action, History, Romance
Country: China
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Plot tags: exciting, dorama, romantic, sweet, romantic drama
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Nirvana in Fire (2015)
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During the great unrest of 4th-century China, war breaks out between the feudal Northern Wei and Southern Liang dynasties. General Lin Xie of Liang takes his only 17-year-old son, Lin Shu, into battle and successfully fights off the hostile Wei army. But when a political rival frames General Lin Xie, it causes the deaths of 70,000 Chiyan army soldiers. Lin Shu is able to escape with his life with the help of a loyal subordinate. Twelve years later, Lin Shu establishes the Jiangzuo Alliance and returns to the capital as the Chief Mei Changsu. When the Northern Wei forces mount another attack, to what lengths will Mei Changsu go to protect his own people?.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, costume drama
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Water Gate Bridge (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the follow-up to "The Battle At Lake Changjin", brothers Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli undertake a new task for the People's Volunteer Army, defending a bridge part of the American troops' escape route from the advancing Chinese.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Apostle (2008)
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At the beginning of the war, the Germans abandoned their saboteur in the USSR. The landing is unsuccessful - the spy is captured by the NKVD. When trying to escape, the saboteur, who turned out to be a Russian thief in law, accidentally remaining in the occupied territory, dies. To find the other spies participating in the operation, the Chekists have to turn to the twin brother of the criminal - the village teacher. He takes the place of the deceased in the German intelligence network and enters into a deadly game.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 600 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, patriotic, realistic, clever, serious
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Chinese Paladin 5 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on the RPG game The Legend of Sword and Fairy 5, this story is about the prince of demon kingdom Jiang Yun Fan being left in the human world. When he meets a couple of friends, he realizes the importance of friendship and love with humans and fairies, but his father, the king, is going to be killed by the fairies to release his demon power. Will he choose his father,or his lover and his friends?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, xianxia
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Agent X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, political, action adventure
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SIX (2017)
Plot Summary:
Action drama series inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Undercovers (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five years after leaving the CIA to open a catering company, Steven and Samantha Bloom are recruited back into the agency by Carlton Shaw. They take on special missions the average agent cannot handle. Having made a pact to never discuss their pasts with each other, the Blooms find surprising new things about their spouse in the course of each mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, semi serious, sexy, fast
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Hunted (2012)
Plot Summary:
Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, exciting
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Jaguar (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1960s Spain, a Holocaust survivor joins a group of agents seeking justice against the hundreds of Nazis who fled to the nation to hide after WWII.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period drama
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The Disguiser (2015)
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Set in the Japanese occupation era, the rich yet naive young master Ming Tai is trained to become an agent, and is later sent to become an underground spy for the Communists. Together with his brother and double agent Ming Lou, they try and bring down Wang Wei's Kuomintang Secret Service Headquarters.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
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Traitors (2019)
Plot Summary:
1945 London. Feef is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the British Government.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, period drama
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MosGaz. Delo N2: Palach (2015)
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Events take place on the outskirts of Moscow in 1965. In the center - the story of the exposure of a woman executioner who, during the war, at the behest of the Germans, shot prisoners, partisans, and civilians. This is actually a separate civil war of the fanatic with their people. During the war, she was barely 20 years old, and on her account there were already fifteen hundred murders. She shot her victims with a machine gun, hiding behind a toy bunny mask. Then she drank a bottle of moonshine and then appeared the next morning without a mask and lived an ordinary life, the same as everyone else ... Therefore, after the war, it was very difficult to figure out the killer. This case was assigned to the chief investigator. His suspicions fall on one or the other woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak
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Treadstone (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Treadstone project, having created super spy Jason Bourne, turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, intense, action adventure
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Operation Dunkirk (2017)
Plot Summary:
A band of soldiers tasked with staying behind during the Battle of Dunkirk to rescue a scientist with information that could turn the tide of the war must battle their way through dangerous Nazi territory to complete their mission.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, mockbuster
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The Eight Hundred (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, exciting
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Sparrow (2016)
Plot Summary:
This drama is set during the revolutionary time in Shanghai, based on a novel of the same name of Hai Fei. During the republican revolution, Chen Shen is a secret agent under Special Operations Executive Director Bi Zhongliang, among the agents called “sparrow” (similar to the program “zero” in Japan).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, factual
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The Red Ghost (2020)
Plot Summary:
December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'The Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, rough, suspense
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Purple Butterfly (2003)
Plot Summary:
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: China, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, non-linear
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Cambridge Spies (2003)
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In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, contemplative, tense, suspense, political, political thriller, period piece, period drama
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Spies of Warsaw (2013)
Plot Summary:
A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, Poland, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, suspense, political, period drama
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Death to Spies (2019)
Plot Summary:
1941. Georgy Volkov, Captain of the State Security Service, is delivering to the Soviet Union a consignment of emeralds under a trade agreement between the USSR and Germany.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Mystery, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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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