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PONIES (2026)
5K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
In 1977 Moscow, two "PONIES" ("persons of no interest") become CIA operatives and uncover a Cold War conspiracy their husbands were killed for.
Style:
political thriller, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, noir, surreal, period drama
Plot:
spy thriller, conspiracy, cia, cold war, u.s. embassy, espionage, betrayal, double life, paranoia, surveillance, assassination, moral ambiguity, revenge, friendship, resilience, political corruption, male nudity, pretty woman, disguise, slow burn, cia agent, kgb, secretary, school teacher, widow ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, political thriller and captivating films and TV series with plots about espionage, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, betrayal, surveillance, spy thriller and spy mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like PONIES: Spy City (2020), Betrayal (2026), The Endless Game (1989), The Game (2014), The Sell Out (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?
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Plot:
spy, espionage, counter intelligence, cold war, secret agent, government agent, spy mission, secret mission, betrayal, spy thriller, special agent, mission ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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John Hughes joined MI5 during the war on terror and was at the forefront of averting the biggest terrorist plots on UK soil. Now in his mid 40s and married with two children he’s struggling to adapt to the new MI5, where threats to national ...
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, tense, dark, atmospheric
Plot:
espionage, conspiracy, betrayal, national security, moral ambiguity, assassination, ethical dilemma, cover up, intelligence agency, surveillance, male protagonist, family drama ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
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A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, noir, f word
Plot:
investigation, conspiracy, spy thriller, british intelligence, espionage, murder mystery, betrayal, surveillance, paranoia, revenge, ex lover, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
london
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73%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
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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:
suspenseful, stylized, tense, clever, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
espionage, cold war, undercover, twists and turns, spy, conspiracy, government agency, intelligence, conservative, spy thriller, cold war era, covert operation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, soviet union, ussr, london
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, action drama, tension, noir ...
Plot:
cold war, kgb, espionage, cia, betrayal, spy thriller, assassination, mentor protege relationship, hitman, secrets, covert operation, paranoia ...
Time:
70s
Place:
lebanon, israel, middle east
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
London, 1886. Soho shopkeeper Verloc is paid by the Russian Embassy to spy on an anarchist cell. The Russians demand that Verloc orchestrates a bomb attack that will be blamed on the anarchists and provoke a British crackdown
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
anarchism, espionage, political intrigue, spy thriller, undercover agent, double life, political manipulation, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, slow burn, urban decay, fatalism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, atmospheric, political thriller, noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
espionage, covert operation, train, spy thriller, mistaken identity, falsely accused, female protagonist, conspiracy, paranoia, deception, cat and mouse, mistrust ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
During the height of the Cold War, Victor Godeanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and secret agent for the KGB, must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. Helped by an undercover ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, tense, psychological, period drama
Plot:
cold war, agent, espionage, spy, problem, special agent, secret agent, undercover agent, secret, spy thriller, cia, fight ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
bucharest, west germany
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
TV show
Story:
Ewa Oginiec wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy but things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, political thriller, noir, suspense thriller ...
Plot:
secret service, spy thriller, intelligence agency, intrigue, espionage, moral ambiguity, missing person, surveillance, cat and mouse, betrayal, paranoia, investigation ...
Place:
eastern europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
47%
10K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Two women play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. In the shadows, mission controllers at the CIA and French DGSE ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, political thriller ...
Plot:
deception, isis, espionage, female protagonist, secret, cia, secrets, game of death, women, con trick, investigation, problem ...
Place:
paris france, london, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
46%
224
Genre: Thriller
Country: Estonia
TV show
Story:
In 2004, shortly before Estonia's accession to NATO, the Russian intelligence service is approaching Alfred Vind, an official of the Estonian Ministry of Defense ...
Style:
suspenseful, political thriller, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
spy, border patrol, political conflict, kgb, russian army, treason, betrayal, espionage, political intrigue, national security, spy thriller, recruitment ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Fernando Barrientos, Head of the National Security Directorate, Mexico's Secret Police, is trying to reach the highest position in the country. On his way, he'll have to manipulate, betray, and kill, and he's well prepared for it. ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
betrayal, manipulation, ambition, conspiracy, power struggle, corruption, mature, political intrigue, secret police, abuse of power, national security, police investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
The year is 1982. Katya Koroleva, an athlete and a beauty, flees from the investigation to her sister in Moscow. Her sister gets her a job as a saleswoman at the Porcelain House store. Here Katya meets a KGB general, not knowing that her sister is ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kgb, idealism, lifestyle, power relations, youth, ambition, society, female protagonist, showdown, state affairs, law enforcement, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s
Place:
moscow russia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Before The Terminal List, Navy SEAL Ben Edwards finds himself entangled in the black operations side of the CIA. The deeper Ben goes into the 'gray', the harder it will become to not give himself over to his darker impulses. Every man has ...
Style:
action thriller, suspense, tense, intense, grim ...
Plot:
conspiracy, cia, espionage, military, moral ambiguity, black ops, betrayal, corruption, anti hero, undercover, revenge, morality ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
21K
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, retro ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy, betrayal, secret agent, cuban missile crisis, undercover, surveillance, conspiracy, politics, kgb, government agency ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1962, year 1969
Place:
cuba, france, paris france, copenhagen, new york ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When stuntman Bunny recruits struggling actress Honey for a side gig, they are hurled into a high-stakes world of action, espionage and betrayal. Years later, as their dangerous past catches up, the estranged Honey and Bunny must reunite and fight ...
Style:
action packed, suspenseful, fast paced, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
spy thriller, espionage, parenthood, betrayal, undercover, mother daughter relationship, conspiracy, female empowerment, estrangement, revenge, moral ambiguity, double life ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the West. Shadow Lines is an international spy thriller that ...
Style:
political, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, european history, secret agent, special agent, spy mission, secret mission, spy hero, wartime, secret, military ...
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 20th century, 50s
Place:
soviet union, helsinki finland, finland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their ...
Style:
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Plot:
espionage, spy, undercover agent, terrorism, danger, investigation, national security, secret service, twists and turns, secret identity, mission, characters in danger ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
syria, paris france, middle east, france, israel ...
Similarity:
37%
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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, captivating, sexy, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, undercover, working undercover, mission, top secret, kgb, mole, government agency, couple relations, investigation ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., soviet union, usa, ussr
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Two agents—and former lovers—must work together to combat international cyberattacks threatening the UK while also confronting the buried secrets of their destructive relationship.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, twisted, tense ...
Plot:
secret past, dark past, spy thriller, agent, cybersecurity, espionage, tragic past, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, political intrigue, government agent, betrayal ...
Place:
london, britain
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Spy drama set in the social and political chaos of 1968, inspired by a true story. Pursued into Canada by the FBI, the matriarch of an American activist family helps smuggle Vietnam war deserters and draft dodgers across the border. What she ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, exciting, thrilling, serious ...
Plot:
espionage, vietnam war, loyalty, political activism, relationships, male female relationship, fight, politics, love, love affair, political intrigue, couples ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US History, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, political
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, cold war era, cia, secret agent, communism, double agent, investigation, state affairs, government agency, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, 1880s
Place:
usa, soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
Style:
tense, captivating, dramatic, exciting
Plot:
british intelligence, espionage, kgb, cold war, double agent, secret agent, reconnaissance, officer, undercover agent, friend, agent, fellow agent ...
Time:
60s, 1940s, 1950s, year 1934
Place:
moscow russia, london
Similarity:
36%
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133
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Farida, a photographer, goes to a hotel to meet her friend and husband, who works at the hotel's Vertigo bar. She finds herself the only witness to the murder of two businessmen and their guards, as well as the lives of her close friends.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, witness, photographer, problem, witnessing a crime, murder mystery, secret, female protagonist, intrigue, conspiracy theory, danger ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, the secret service of Kádár began a more dangerous state security game than ever before.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, political thriller ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, secret, secret service, special agent, undercover agent, spy, spy mission, agent, top secret, war, secret mission ...
Time:
70s
Place:
budapest
Similarity:
36%
63K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.
Style:
suspenseful, contemplative, thought provoking, cyber, political thriller ...
Plot:
investigation, hacker, espionage, national security, moral ambiguity, paranoia, power struggle, political intrigue, media manipulation, usa president, suspicion, surveillance ...
Time:
near future
Place:
washington d.c., new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Secluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed with questions around new information on his paternity, Edward battles to find the right time to ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
conspiracy, assassin, on the run, mother son relationship, protective parent, family drama, mature, secrets, fatherhood, pursuit, escape, estrangement ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A farmer is confronted with dark forces seeping into his rural community, leading to an investigation into the county lines drug cartel.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, dark, suspense, pastoral ...
Plot:
crime investigation, drug cartel, threat, secrets, conspiracy, corruption, working class, moral ambiguity, slow burn, survival, betrayal, violence ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 308 min.
TV show
Story:
Bonn depicts the rise of the young West Germany, a country struggling to break free from the terrors and legacies of World War II and longing for a 'normal' life. Into this heady and volatile mix steps Toni, a young woman determined to ...
Style:
period piece, exciting, captivating, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
secret service, post war, german woman, world war two, head of state, spying, state affairs, politics, country, young woman, espionage, german history ...
Time:
post world war two, 1950s
Place:
germany, west germany
Similarity:
34%
17K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When the British Prime Minister’s husband is kidnapped and the visiting French President is blackmailed, the two political leaders both face unimaginable choices. Forced into a fierce rivalry where their political futures, and lives, might hang in ...
Style:
political thriller, suspense, suspenseful, tension, tense ...
Plot:
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Place:
united kingdom
Similarity:
34%
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