Movies like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Style: clever, confusing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking, period piece, political, harsh, neo noir, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, secret service, investigation, british intelligence, mole, double agent, kgb, conspiracy, surveillance, intelligence, corruption, torture, iron curtain, loneliness, british, adaptation, paranoia, assassination, agent, mind game, rivalry, secret, treason ...
Time: 70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london, britain, somalia, budapest, istanbul turkey ...
Keyword: russian, challenge

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Most similar movies to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and political thriller films with plots about espionage, spy, politics, state affairs, undercover, dishonesty and intrigue mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: The Good Shepherd (2006), The Game (2014), The Ipcress File (1965), The Lives of Others (2006), Page Eight (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 290 min.
TV show
Story: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
Style: talky, clever, serious, political thriller, realistic ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret service, double agent, book, traitor, betrayal, investigation, kgb, mole, politics ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: britain, england, london, europe, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot: cold war, spy, cia, espionage, double agent, corruption, politics, betrayal, conspiracy, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 60s, year 1958 ...
Place: cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
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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 ⇓
100%
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the cold war during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Style: political, black and white, suspense, grim, realistic ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, berlin wall, iron curtain, british intelligence, double agent, politics, great ending, secret agent, spy thriller, loner ...
Time: 60s, year 1965, 20th century
Place: east germany, berlin germany, london, england, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 Lives of Others (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style: political thriller, gloomy, political, sincere, suspense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surveillance, cold war, berlin wall, spy, stasi, communism, iron curtain, secrets, loneliness, voyeurism, politics, suicide ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, year 1984 ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 6.8
 19K
Page Eight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny ...
Style: political thriller, serious, tense, realistic, political ...
Plot: spy, espionage, blackmail, secret service, undercover, government agency, loss of friend, state affairs, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, prime minister, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Style: clever, bleak, tense, political, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, surveillance, immigrant, war on terror, islam, secret service, investigation, betrayal, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, hamburg germany, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Night Manager (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 346 min.
TV show
Story: Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer ...
Style: serious, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: espionage, spy, arms dealer, undercover, corruption, working undercover, secret service, arms dealing, british secret service, violent, betrayal, murder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, switzerland, morocco, spain, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.4
 76K
Child 44 (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, Russia, Romania
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, detective, serious, factual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder mystery, child murder, stalinism, investigation, child murder investigation, murder investigation, politics, fighting the system, betrayal, justice ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ukraine, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 2K
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 ⇓
100%
 7.0
 62K
Breach (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation ...
Style: political thriller, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: espionage, investigation, spy, cia, double agent, betrayal, fbi, surveillance, manipulation, cold war, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa, moscow russia, soviet union, ussr, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.4
 110K
The Americans (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI ...
Style: exciting, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, undercover, kgb, mole, double life, working undercover, investigation, double agent, fbi, top secret ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., soviet union, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 7.6
 326K
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min.
Story: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate ...
Style: suspense, realistic, dramatic, intense, historical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cold war, lawyer, espionage, spy, cia, justice, courtroom, court, trial, berlin wall, soviet spy, negotiation ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 50s, 60s ...
Place: east germany, berlin germany, soviet union, new york, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Russia House (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.
Style: political, stylized, sex comedy, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, surveillance, iron curtain, cia, undercover, politics, intrigue, international relations, secret agent, russian woman, love ...
Time: 80s
Place: russia, england, lisbon portugal, soviet union, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
Style: political thriller, tense, suspense, atmospheric, exciting ...
Plot: conspiracy, espionage, cia, fighting the system, political conspiracy, uncover truth, who to trust, life turned upside down, hitman, manhunt, assassin, cold war ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: new york, middle east, persia, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style: serious, political thriller, captivating, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: writers, twists and turns, politics, political conspiracy, investigation, betrayal, writer's life, spy, espionage, cia, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new england, new york, massachusetts, britain, oxford university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, clever, political, tense ...
Plot: conspiracy, gulf war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, mind control, political corruption, assassin, sniper, senator, obsession, politics, assassination ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 2004, 2000s, year 1991 ...
Place: iraq, usa, new york, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Smiley's People (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: cold war, espionage, british intelligence, spy, investigation, working undercover, secret mission, politics, traitor, intelligence, mysticism, spy thriller ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: britain, hamburg germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Kenya, France, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very ...
Style: political thriller, suspenseful, tense, political, suspense ...
Plot: conspiracy, spy, investigation, corruption, murder, cover up, death, aids, politics, marriage, idealism, politician ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, sudan, germany, kenya, south africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.7
 16K
Gorky Park (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a ...
Style: detective, political, suspense, tense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, murder, conspiracy, police investigation, espionage, secret agent, murder investigation, kgb agent, murder mystery, politics, police corruption ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: moscow russia, russia, ussr, stockholm sweden, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.7
 637K
Argo (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Style: tense, suspenseful, clever, captivating, political ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: cia, secret mission, secret agent, rescue mission, politics, u.s. embassy, espionage, revolution, hostage, propaganda, american abroad, danger ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2012, year 1979, 2010s ...
Place: middle east, iran, tehran iran, los angeles, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Company (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 286 min.
TV show
Story: Real-life figures from the Cold War era mix with a fictional story based on a group of CIA operatives and their counterparts in the KGB, MI6, and the Mossad.
Style: captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, cia, spy, mole, politics, intrigue, suspicion, double life, state affairs, betrayal, power relations, danger ...
Time: 50s, 70s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: germany, europe, cuba, hungary, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: agoraphobia, mental illness, mental disorder, murder, car accident, death, suicide, uncover truth, plot twist, deception, espionage, illness ...
Time: 2020s
Place: america, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Operative (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Style: exciting, psychological, suspense, powerful
Plot: mossad, spy, female spy, molestation, female secret agent, female nudity, secret agent, twists and turns, deception, disguise, couple relations, secret service ...
Time: year 2019
Place: iran, palestine, tehran, tehran iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 19K
Topaz (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, political thriller ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, betrayal, cuban missile crisis, surveillance, undercover, conspiracy, kgb, politics, government agency ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, year 1962
Place: cuba, france, paris france, copenhagen, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.9
 11K
Rubicon (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Rubicon is an American television series that centers on an intelligence analyst at a national think tank in New York City called the American Policy Institute, who discovers that he may be working with members of a secret society that manipulates ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: conspiracy, uncover truth, analyst, prodigy, undercover, surveillance, spy, boss, twists and turns, government facility, workplace, intelligence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Parallax View (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political ...
Plot: politics, corruption, conspiracy, investigation, reporter, journalism, murder, assassin, media, senator, political conspiracy, paranoia ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
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