Movies like The Fourth Protocol

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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 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.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, political, philosophical, political thriller, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, cold war, politics, spy, conspiracy, kgb, betrayal, chase, nuclear bomb, race against time, secret agent, terrorism, political intrigue, danger, voyeur, rivalry, nuclear, undercover, investigation, murder, undercover agent, international relations, spy thriller, violence, death ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london, big ben london
Keyword: russian, american, alias, gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Fourth Protocol

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and suspense films with plots about spy, danger, espionage, secret agent, undercover, murder and politics mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like The Fourth Protocol: The Ipcress File (1965), The Jigsaw Man (1983), Funeral in Berlin (1966), The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Holcroft Covenant (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Ipcress File (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot: espionage, cold war, conspiracy, spy, double agent, brainwashing, politics, undercover, investigation, british, political intrigue, secret agent ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: london, albania, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Jigsaw Man (1983)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB ...
Style: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, face, 007, james bond, surgery, law enforcement, spy thriller, kgb, british intelligence, traitor ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: russia, soviet union, europe, england, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to ...
Style: political thriller, suspenseful, visually stunning, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, espionage, berlin wall, spy, funeral, 007, chase, betrayal, hotel, murder, intrigue, secret mission ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style: political thriller, exciting, suspenseful, political, atmospheric ...
Plot: conspiracy, terrorism, espionage, hitman, assassin, politics, terrorist plot, investigation, police investigation, serial killer, terrorist, assassination ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, year 1973, 60s
Place: paris france, france, algeria, europe, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past--but his son has to search the world to find it
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: spy, nazi, holocaust, violence, brutality, hitman, against the odds, haunted by the past, dishonesty, family relations, political intrigue, espionage ...
Time: 80s, 1940s, year 1985, year 1945
Place: berlin germany, tower bridge london, london, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Odessa File (1974)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually ...
Style: political thriller, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: espionage, investigation, nazi, spy, world war two, war criminal, conspiracy, holocaust, journalism, mossad, war crime, neo nazi ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, post world war two, year 1963
Place: germany, hamburg germany, israel, west germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov (Jason Connery), ex-CIA agent Craig (Michael Sarrazin), and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky (Lev Prygunov). They take on the job of ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film, eurospy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, private detective, cold war, law enforcement, british spy, james bond spoof, secret agent, violent content, kidnapping, political conspiracy, woman in danger, nuclear threat ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Secrets of State (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense ...
Plot: counter terrorism, terrorist, espionage, politics, terrorism, spy, secret agent, political conspiracy, state affairs, race against time, good versus evil, prison rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Whistle Blower (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
Style: political thriller, political, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, whistleblower, murder, paranoia, spy thriller, intrigue, law enforcement, 007, iron curtain, politics ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 ⇓
100%
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, tense, serious ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, spy, runaway, insubordination, rescue, world war, commando unit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1943
Place: germany, poland, england, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
The Statement (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, intense, political, serious ...
Plot: war criminal, world war two, investigation, politics, murder, justice, nazi, espionage, on the run, fighting the system, law enforcement, state affairs ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003, 90s
Place: france, vichy, europe, paris france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Urge (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of friends on holiday on an island experiment a new designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control their urges.
Style: suspense, exciting, sexy, tense, psychological ...
Plot: drug, hedonism, bondage, party, friends, island, mind game, danger, sex scene, escapades, nothing goes right, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Agent Hamilton (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 44 min.
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Story: 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 ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, terrorism, secret service, black ops, rogue agent, double agent, secret agent, disguise, investigation, conspiracy, terrorist attack, panic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Croatia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, fast, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, railway, 007, hijacking, fugitives, spy, gulf war, die hard, subway, scientist, mercenary, hostage ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: iraq, europe, russia, soviet union, iran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, car chase, prison, betrayal, on the run, working undercover, cold war, rivalry, danger, heist ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, russia, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Style: political thriller, psychotronic, suspense, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, computer, anti communism, spy thriller, railway, martial arts, revolt, woman with a gun, secret mission, machine gun ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: helsinki finland, finland, england, texas, latvia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Detonator II: Night Watch (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Croatia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch". The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and involves them in not only art ...
Style: suspense, serious, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: art theft, espionage, investigation, partner, undercover, spy, danger, escapades, female warrior, famous painting, heist, forgery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: amsterdam, asia, europe, new york, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now 007 must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Style: suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: spy, james bond, 007, espionage, chase, secret agent, top secret, secret service, world war three, terrorism, female martial artist, female agent ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: hamburg germany, hong kong, china, vietnam, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Final Option (1982)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, undercover, hostage, state affairs, isolation, danger, politics, rivalry, working undercover, nuclear holocaust, anti war ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: england, london, europe, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.2
 269K
GoldenEye (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: James Bond must unmask the mysterious head of the Janus Syndicate and prevent the leader from utilizing the GoldenEye weapons system to inflict devastating revenge on Britain.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night, manly, boys' night
Plot: james bond, espionage, spy, satellite, woman with a gun, agent, mission, bond girl, romancing partners, terrorism, 007, organized crime ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: london, paris france, europe, cuba, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Black Windmill (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Style: bloody, political thriller, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cold war, undercover, politics, secret agent, agent, ransom, murder, undercover agent, father son relationship, machine gun, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, london, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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American Roulette (1988)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, violent content, nudity, on the run, politics, assassination attempt, danger, heroes, dishonesty, rebellion, espionage, head of state ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The ...
Style: political, talky, stylized, suspense, sexy ...
Plot: espionage, spy, politics, gangster, mentor, adultery, brainwashing, undercover, conspiracy, debt, secret agent, 007 ...
Time: y2k, year 2001, 90s
Place: panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to a protect beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, action packed, saga, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: james bond, 007, terrorism, secret service, spy, oil, secret agent, espionage, agent, femme fatale, chase, explosions ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: london, turkey, england, istanbul turkey, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.9
 4K
Wolf (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, spy, double agent, infiltration, life turned upside down, fish out of water, on the run, espionage, undercover, dishonesty, betrayal, chase ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms, and eventually ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, spy, corruption, disobeying orders, undercover, police, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, british intelligence, missing person ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, united kingdom, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.8
 2K
The Defender (2004)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, state affairs, daring rescue, danger, save the day, chases and races, law enforcement, conspiracy, undercover agent, shootout, spy ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe, new york, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.7
 1K
Icon (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story: A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former enemy, now running as a candidate for President in modern Russia. Working with a Russian ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, fast, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: politics, espionage, uncover truth, race against time, presidential election, chases and races, heroes, fighting the system, danger, government agency, secret agent, state affairs ...
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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