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Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
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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 finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, eurospy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, private detective, cold war, law enforcement, james bond spoof, british spy, heroes, kidnapping, kgb, undercover, profanity, chases and races, rivalry, danger, political conspiracy, nuclear threat, woman in danger, dishonesty, state affairs, save the day, secret agent, violent content, chess, abduction, ballerina ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and exciting films with plots about state affairs, dishonesty, undercover, chases and races, spy, secret agent and danger mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Midnight in Saint Petersburg: The Fourth Protocol (1987), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Bullet to Beijing (1995), The Jigsaw Man (1983), On Dangerous Ground (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
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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 ...
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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 ⇓
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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 ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1983, 80s
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On Dangerous Ground (1996)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen ...
Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, england, china
⇓ 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
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Time: year 1967, 60s
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Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
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Style: grindhouse, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
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Time: year 1961, year 1957, future, 20th century, 50s
Place: russia, moscow russia, usa, new york
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27%
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 ...
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Time: 80s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Time Lapse (2001)
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Duration: 88 min.
Story: Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last ...
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Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Thunder Point (1998)
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Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
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Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place: china
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24%
Who's Got the Black Box? (1967)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
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Time: year 1967, 60s
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Witness to a Kill (2001)
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who threaten the economies of many African states.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Murder in the Central Committee (1982)
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Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
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The MacKintosh Man (1973)
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The Executioner (1970)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Midnight Man (1997)
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Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg, USA
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The Amateur (1981)
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Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Thriller
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The Next Man (1976)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Striking Poses (1998)
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hijack (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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