Movies like Fay Grim

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Fay Grim (2006)
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Fay Grim (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, espionage, intrigue, undercover, rivalry, woman in danger, dishonesty, politics, chases and races, spy, investigation, pursuit, cia, women, art, self discovery, family relations, poet, code, sex, harem, cia agent, publisher, notebook, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2006, year 1989, 21st century, contemporary
Place: paris france, france, europe, afghanistan, istanbul turkey, nicaragua, turkey
Keyword: russian, arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, exciting and serious films with plots about undercover, murder, spy, danger, espionage, secret agent and agent mostly in Action, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Fay Grim: Henry Fool (1997), Spy Game (2001), Enemy of the State (1998), Body of Lies (2008), S*P*Y*S (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Henry Fool (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
Style: independent film, cult classic, philosophical, dark comedy, talky ...
Plot: writers, poetry, art, poet, suicide, writer's life, bittersweet, drinking, violence, drifter, rap, sex scene ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey, usa, new york, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.1
 166K
Spy Game (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Japan, France, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Veteran spy Nathan Muir is on the verge of retiring from the CIA when he learns that his one-time protégé and close friend, Tom Bishop, is a political prisoner sentenced to die in Beijing. Although their friendship has been marred by bad blood and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, stylized, rough, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cia, espionage, mentor, undercover, working undercover, government agency, conspiracy, secret agent, terrorist, cold war, against the rules ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: china, washington d.c., saigon, cyprus, shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Enemy of the State (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Hotshot Washington lawyer, Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security agent sets out to recover the tape – and destroy Dean.
Style: clever, tense, suspense, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, kids
Plot: conspiracy, surveillance, espionage, cia, political conspiracy, uncover truth, on the run, investigation, politics, twists and turns, manhunt, intelligence ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: baltimore, washington d.c., maryland, afghanistan, iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.0
 239K
Body of Lies (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – ...
Style: clever, political, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: terrorism, spy, cia, espionage, cia agent, terrorist, intelligence agency, secret service, government agency, conspiracy, danger, politics ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, jordan, syria, virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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S*P*Y*S (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
Style: parody, not serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, espionage, murder, cold war, on the run, conspiracy, silly humor, secret agent, partner, chase, undercover, chases and races ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Bullet to Beijing (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA, Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biological warfare, spy, conspiracy, intrigue, state affairs, danger, political conspiracy, secret agent, dishonesty, save the day, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: russia, beijing china, asia, europe, korea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Berlin File (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: espionage, double agent, spy, intrigue, hidden identity, on the run, manhunt, chase, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, berlin germany, germany, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Foreigner (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, secret agent, martial arts, spy, good versus evil, heroes, on the run, race against time, danger, undercover, espionage, government agency ...
Place: france, europe, poland, germany, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 97K
3 Days to Kill (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, exciting, serious, action thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: secret service, hitman, cia, danger, parents and children, agent, assassin, family reunited, terminal illness, one last job, illness, undercover ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, langley virginia, belgrade serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Girl from Monday (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
Style: semi serious, cynical, clever, stylized, witty ...
Plot: dystopian future, danger, chaos, alien encounter, big business, totalitarianism, cynicism, corporation, employer employee relationship, marketing, age-gap relationship, rebel ...
Time: future
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.7
 224K
2 Guns (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Style: buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover, heist, organized crime, cia, money, working undercover, corruption, foe turned friend, conspiracy, robbery, mafia, investigation ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Company Business (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, secret mission, conspiracy, cia, hostage, exodus, race against time, assassination attempt, danger, politics ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: germany, europe, france, paris france, east berlin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
History Is Made at Night (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Finland, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot: spy, nude women, 007, satellite, secret agent, working undercover, kgb, farce, heroes, chases and races, undercover, government agency ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, finland, helsinki finland, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Cold Day in August (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, working undercover, betrayal, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, dark humor, disorder, murder, cons and scams, danger, dishonesty, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.0
 33K
Erased (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Belgium, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, rough, action thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cia, father daughter relationship, spy, espionage, family relations, secret agent, hitman, secret service, conspiracy, on the run, family in danger, chase ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: belgium, usa, antwerp, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.6
 142K
The Recruit (2003)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
Style: surprise ending, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: spy, cia, twists and turns, secret service, espionage, double agent, basic training, undercover, hotshot hero, rookie, recruit, deception ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., boston, usa, peru, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.0
 14K
Deep Cover (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police investigation, gangster, brutality, drug, murder, drug addiction, undercover, racial slur, undercover cop, black, urban, betrayal ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: los angeles, ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Numbers Station (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, spy, secret service, survival, twists and turns, assassination, happy ending, adaptation, vengeance, betrayal, cia, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, new jersey, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Blue Iguana (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The IRS sends Recovery Specialist Vince Holloway south of the border to the dangerous town of Diablo to rob the outlaw bank where criminals launder their cash.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: woman with a gun, bounty hunter, chase, kidnapping, murder, bank, criminal's revenge, heroes, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 120K
Patriot Games (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Style: exciting, political, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, spy, hitman, revenge, espionage, cia, terrorist, assassination, conspiracy, ira, violence, secret agent ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., ireland, usa, north africa, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, China, Indonesia, Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Five Eyes, the international intelligence agency, recruits MI6 agent Orson Fortune to prevent the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
Style: entertaining, captivating, satirical, humorous, action comedy ...
Plot: agent, cia, teamwork, cia agent, secret mission, spy, undercover, secret agent, fight, special agent, satire, fighting crime ...
Time: 2020s
Place: london, madrid, los angeles, morocco, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Shooting Elizabeth (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Before a man (Jeff Goldblum) can kill his nagging wife (Mimi Rogers) as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.
Style: black comedy, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous
Plot: murder, dishonesty, unfulfillment, law enforcement, danger, couple relations, goofy hero, disorder, couples, injustice, dark humor, kidnapping ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.4
 329K
Salt (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude ...
Style: exciting, suspense, surprise ending, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: cia, female protagonist, espionage, secret service, spy, strong female lead, double agent, chase, agent as target, one woman army, female spy, female assassin ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place: new york, north korea, washington d.c., russia, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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RED 2 (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Style: entertaining, exciting, witty, action adventure, spy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: spy, hitman, cia, agent, cia agent, secret service, superhero, mercenary, assassin, comic book, mad scientist, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, england, paris france, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.7
 234K
Safe House (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, intense, tense ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: cia, espionage, secret service, secret agent, on the run, gunfight, cia agent, betrayal, conspiracy, mercenary, corruption, rogue agent ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: cape town south africa, africa, south africa, iran, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.7
 2K
Hollow Point (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Livingston is trying to merge the Russians, Chinese and Italian gangsters into one group with huge amounts of money and power. FBI agent Susan and DEA agent Max are trying to stop them.
Style: exciting, humorous, entertaining, light, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, espionage, reluctant partners, hitman, fbi, undercover, rivalry, danger, race against time, law enforcement, special agent, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.3
 279K
True Lies (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government. For years, he has kept his job from his wife, but is forced to reveal his identity and try to stop nuclear terrorists when he and his wife are kidnapped by them.
Style: exciting, humorous, action packed, action comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: spy, secret service, espionage, secret agent, agent, surveillance, terrorism, tango, love and romance, terrorist plot, family problems, heroic mission ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: florida, maryland, rhode island, key west florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.2
 273
The Spies (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 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.
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic ...
Plot: working undercover, assassination, danger, special agent, undercover, terrorism, conspiracy, rivalry, spy, investigation, friendship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 3.0
 4K
The Serpent (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: spy, female spy, special agent, heroes, martial arts, secret agent, danger, murder, death, chase, fight, violence ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.8
 58K
Rendition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, conspiracy, terrorist, war on terror, kidnapping, cia, islamic terrorism, espionage, torture, islam, spy ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, washington d.c., illinois, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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