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Funeral in Berlin (1966)
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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 smuggle him out of East Germany.
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, visually stunning, serious, realistic, psychotronic, psychological, exciting, tense, parody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, espionage, berlin wall, spy, funeral, 007, cold war era, betrayal, chase, covert operation, murder, hotel, female impersonator, defector, british spy, agent, intrigue, stasi, filmmaking, iron curtain, secret service agent, secret mission, spy thriller, desertion, heroes ...
Time:
year 1966, 1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, england, europe, london ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and political thriller films with plots about spy, secret agent, undercover, espionage, dishonesty, cold war and state affairs mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Funeral in Berlin: The Ipcress File (1965), The Fourth Protocol (1987), Enigma (1982), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 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 ...
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iron curtain, cold war, kgb, spy, espionage, assassination, undercover, politics, danger, dishonesty, journalism, government agency ...
Time:
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Place:
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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, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Canada, UK, USA, Russia
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergé egg. James Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
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Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: South Korea, Latvia, Germany
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, west germany ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, retro ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France, Italy, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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