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Pascali's Island (1988)
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Pascali's Island (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, independent film, period drama
Plot: unrequited love, spy, cold war, mediterranean, secret mission, island, love triangle, female nudity, male nudity, turkish bath, heist, heroes, politics, betrayal, battles, undercover, conspiracy, espionage, love and romance, couples, dangerous attraction, political corruption, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time: 1900s, pre world war one, 20th century
Place: greece, ottoman empire, turkey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, spy, undercover, espionage, state affairs, secret agent and politics mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Pascali's Island: The Innocent (1993), The Little Drummer Girl (1984), Triple Agent (2004), Legacy (2013), The Secret Agent (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Innocent (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman who will take him on the dark side of evil.
Style: sexual, political thriller, independent film, sexy, exciting ...
Plot: spy, cold war, berlin wall, iron curtain, stasi, cavalry, crisis, danger, espionage, secret agent, couples, infidelity ...
Time: year 1993, 50s, 1950s
Place: germany, europe
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95%
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Style: political thriller, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mossad, espionage, terrorism, secret agent, intrigue, politics, state affairs, political intrigue, danger, dishonesty, mistaken identity, double agent ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, lebanon, beirut lebanon, israel, germany ...
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82%
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Triple Agent (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, enigmatic, psychological
Plot: spy, politics, government agency, secret agent, betrayal, undercover, life is a bitch, political corruption, rebellion, uncover truth, dishonesty, love triangle ...
Time: 1930s
Place: france, russia, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Legacy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A ...
Style: captivating, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, kgb, secret agent, government agency, betrayal, undercover, love and romance, political unrest, dishonesty, forbidden love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: england, london, britain, soviet union, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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The Secret Agent (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to ...
Style: psychological, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: terrorism, betrayal, politics, bomb, secret agent, murder mystery, police inspector, conspiracy, sabotage, state affairs, undercover, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1880s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Galíndez File (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Italy, Portugal, Cuba, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working with the FBI and was about to publish a book critical of Dominican strongman, Trujillo. In 1988, ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: uncover truth, amateur detective, missing person, life is a bitch, dishonesty, politics, political conspiracy, price of justice, political corruption, spy, conspiracy, state affairs ...
Time: year 1988
Place: new york, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Enigma (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style: suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, spy, kgb, espionage, assassination, politics, danger, dishonesty, government agency, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: east germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Restless (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, mother daughter relationship, espionage, intrigue, secret hideout, spy, secret service, undercover, government agency, double agent, british secret service, secret place ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 70s, 1930s
Place: europe, united kingdom, new mexico, new york, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Island (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate ...
Style: serious, tense, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: island, undercover, hidden identity, family problems, life is a bitch, dishonesty, haunted by the past, feminist, loneliness, redemption, obsessive quest, orphan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mossad, world war two, holocaust, nazi, judaism, kidnapping, nazi war criminal, post war, self control, disorder, righting the wronged, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: israel, latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Executioner (1970)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Style: talky, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, assassin, dishonesty, state affairs, vengeance, rivalry, betrayal, government agency, heroes, chases and races, undercover ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Drama. TV Movie.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, fbi, rise and fall, undercover, secret agent, fbi agent, double agent, government agency, betrayal, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Room with a View (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lucy Honeychurch (Elaine Cassidy, Ghost Squad) and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, couples, lovers apart, wooing, world war one, holiday, flashback, nudity ...
Time: victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: britain, europe, florence
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
I Know You Know (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for ...
Style: uplifting, semi serious, touching, witty, exciting ...
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, government agency, parents and children, working undercover, state affairs, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, eccentric family, undercover, parent child relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Betrayal (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, talky, tense, captivating ...
Plot: unfulfillment, love triangle, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, infidelity, autobiography, rivalry, friends, british pub, writers, affair ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Les corps impatients (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: betrayal, life is a bitch, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, unfulfillment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, menage a trois ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Family of Spies (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story: Fact based story of John A. Walker, Jr., a Navy Chief Warrant Officer with access to top secret cryptographic communications. As a result of mounting debts, he sold secrets to the Soviets in 1967, a practice that he continued thereafter. He further ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: espionage, spy, real life, betrayal, secret agent, special agent, working undercover, political unrest, political conspiracy, parents and children, state affairs, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: russia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Agent of Influence (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by Ian Adams. Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat. At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ...
Style: realistic, bleak, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Plot: espionage, head of state, undercover, rebellion, state affairs, dishonesty, heroes, cold war, cia, diplomacy, intrigue, spying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Enemy Within (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, political thriller
Plot: conspiracy, political conspiracy, terrorism, coup d'etat, political corruption, betrayal, manhunt, government agency, state affairs, undercover, special agent, revolution ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Harem (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: stockholm syndrome, sheik, kidnapping, sexual relations, relationships, culture clash, couples, obsession, harem, nudity, moral ambiguity, age difference ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: ottoman empire, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky (Andrew Scott) and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya (Fiona Glascott). Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot: duel, betrayal, love triangle, couples, couple relations, uninhibited rivalry, human nature, tragic hero, rivalry, dishonesty, unfulfillment, downfall ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia, caucasus, black sea
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38%
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The Game (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: London 1972. When a defecting KGB officer, Arkady Malinov, reveals Operation Glass, a devastating Soviet plot that could change the course of the Cold War, Daddy, the head of MI5, assembles a secret team to investigate. As the Soviets awaken a list ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, clever, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spy, conspiracy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, twists and turns, state affairs, dishonesty, undercover, government agency, intelligence, post war ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Farewell (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Engaging, emotional and riveting, FAREWELL is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history— about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called this piece ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: cold war, spy, iron curtain, double agent, undercover, dishonesty, danger, state affairs, betrayal, working undercover, kgb, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 80s
Place: france, soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Feast of the Goat (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: dishonesty, hopes, introspection, rivalry, vengeance, family relations, haunted by the past, homecoming, parents and children, political corruption, strong violent content, conspiracy ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place: dominican republic, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, touching, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cold war, love, politics, forbidden love, female secret agent, secret, danger, female spy, love and romance, espionage, spy, desertion ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Silas Marner (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Style: historical drama, spiritual, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot: time machine, women, literary, asexual, village, rivalry, hopes, life is a bitch, orphan, society, legal action, redemption ...
Time: georgian era, 18th century, year 1985, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Inheritance (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Rome, 1880. Gregorio Ferramonti (Anthony Quinn) has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo (Gigi Proietti), Mario (Fabio Testi) and Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But Irene (Dominique ...
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, stylized, period drama
Plot: sex with sister in law, cuckolded husband, female nudity, erotica, unrequited love, bare breasts, female pubic hair, couples, family relations, infidelity, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 70s, 1880s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
An American Affair (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mutual friends Barbara and Genevieve are both sleeping with District Attorney Sam Brady. When they become aware of their bizzare love triangle, they plot against him.
Style: independent film, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: erotica, political conspiracy, die hard, best friend, violent content, dishonesty, rivalry, vengeance, state affairs, couples, friends, infidelity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Making of a Lady (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,
Style: stylized, suspense, captivating, tense, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, love affair, malice, class differences, female protagonist, high society, social problems, life is a bitch, rich and poor, relationship problems, deception, rich man ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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