Movies like The Good Shepherd
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
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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 the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, tense, emotional, suspense, factual, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
cold war, spy, cia, idealism, double agent, intrigue, espionage, betrayal, invasion, politics, suspicion, patriotism, kgb, corruption, secret agents, dishonesty, government agency, state affairs, who to trust, mentor, student, suicide, torture, poet, russian ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 1940s, 40s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1944 ...
Place:
cuba, usa, washington d.c., berlin germany, congo, africa, latin america ...
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Most similar movies to The Good Shepherd
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about betrayal, corruption, dialogue, storytelling, secrets, state affairs and espionage mostly in Thriller, Drama and History genres. Some movies like The Good Shepherd: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Bridge of Spies (2015), Breach (2007), Syriana (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 122 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:
tense, bleak, twists and turns, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy, double agent, british intelligence, government agency, investigation, mole, betrayal, kgb, secret service, torture ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, budapest, england, budapest hungary, istanbul turkey ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 290 min.
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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:
serious, talky, twists and turns, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, mole, kgb, secret service, double agent, betrayal, secret agents, investigation, traitor, russian ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
london, britain, europe, united kingdom, czechoslovakia ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, India
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:
realistic, suspense, serious, tricky, intense ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, lawyer, spy, cia, pilot, rescue, legal, danger, justice, mission, undercover ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1960s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
soviet union, usa, ussr, europe, berlin germany ...
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100%
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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:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, intense, serious ...
Plot:
espionage, spy, double agent, fbi, surveillance, investigation, undercover, betrayal, manipulation, working undercover, special agents, suspicion ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s, year 2001
Place:
washington d.c., usa, ussr, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a ...
Style:
political thriller, thought provoking, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, cia, globalization, capitalism, espionage, spy, politics, corruption, danger, political conspiracy, political unrest, deal ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
middle east, lebanon, usa, persia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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218K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and ...
Style:
rough, bleak, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, terrorism, mossad, secret agents, vengeance, murder, assassination, jewish, politics, terrorist, spy, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
middle east, europe, israel, lebanon, paris france ...
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83%
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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, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, enigmatic ...
Plot:
espionage, betrayal, kgb, secret agents, politics, state affairs, undercover, government agency, spy, surveillance, cold war, nato ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s, year 1962
Place:
cuba, paris france, new york, copenhagen, france ...
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42%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 286 min.
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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:
bleak, suspenseful, epic, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cia, cold war, spy, suspicion, undercover, betrayal, mole, double life, politics, state affairs, intrigue, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 50s, 60s, 70s
Place:
europe, germany, russia, yale university, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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:
tense, gloomy, sincere, bleak, sexual ...
Plot:
surveillance, cold war, interrogation, espionage, blackmail, german, communism, spy, iron curtain, politics, stasi, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 1990s, year 1984
Place:
germany, east germany, berlin germany, german democratic republic, europe ...
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18%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, ...
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing, tense, sincere ...
Plot:
cold war, president, politics, military, un, nuclear threat, leadership, undercover, political intrigue, state affairs, race against time, rivalry ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s, year 1962
Place:
usa, cuba, soviet union, washington d.c., ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Movies like Heat
219K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, cia, spy, government agency, espionage, intelligence agency, off the grid, torture, danger, bomb, cia agent, explosion ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
middle east, jordan, dubai, manchester england, saudi arabia ...
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31%
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:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, intense, exciting ...
Plot:
kgb, iron curtain, espionage, undercover, assassination, cold war, politics, danger, dishonesty, journalism, rivalry, government agency ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
germany, east germany, russia
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30%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style:
rough, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, cia, kidnapping, terrorist, war on terror, undercover, government agency, state affairs, introspection, senator, police brutality ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
middle east, chicago illinois, washington d.c., usa, north africa ...
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30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
spy, family relations, teenage boy, espionage, investigation, crimes, fbi, kgb, parents and children, teenage life, double agent, graphic violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, ussr, san diego california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot:
murder, loss of spouse, investigation, politics, friendship, faith, kidnapping, journalism, execution, missing person, muslim, fbi ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 90s, 1990s, september 11 2001 ...
Place:
pakistan, middle east, manhattan new york city, los angeles, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Movies similar to The Departed
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, stylized, talky, serious ...
Plot:
politics, espionage, spy, band, map, dancing, secret agents, birthday, swimming, secret agent, fireworks, bridge ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
panama, latin america, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
148K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, captivating, controversial, disturbing ...
Plot:
political conspiracy, kennedy assassination, cia, investigation, district attorney, president, assassination, gay slur, fighting the system, political corruption, evidence, government ...
Time:
60s, 1960s, 20th century, year 1963
Place:
new orleans, dallas texas, washington d.c., vietnam, cuba ...
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29%
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:
bleak, talky, realistic, clever, captivating ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, communist, double agent, whiskey, library, cynicism, iron curtain, grocer, atheist, court martial ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
london, england, germany, europe, east germany ...
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29%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude ...
Style:
twists and turns, exciting, suspense, surprise ending, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female protagonist, cia, espionage, female spy, spy, double agent, strong female lead, secret service, secret agents, female assassin, cia agent, chase ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 70s
Place:
usa, new york, soviet union, ussr, russia ...
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29%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Style:
tense, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
espionage, treason, undercover, double agent, buddies, dishonesty, society, political conspiracy, cold war, spy, satellite, smuggling ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa, california, soviet union, united states, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: 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:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, enigmatic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy, political intrigue, double agent, undercover, investigation, dishonesty, race against time, danger, rivalry, politics ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
england, albania, london, europe, scotland yard ...
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29%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
betrayal, espionage, conspiracy, undercover, murder, family, rescue, threat, voyeurism, manhunt, agent, cia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, san francisco
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29%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, compassionate ...
Plot:
tunnel, politics, betrayal, political unrest, heroes, danger, daring rescue, freedom, wartime, breast feeding, family relations, cold war ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, east berlin, east germany ...
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28%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
cold war, conspiracy, u.s. air force, nuclear, politics, military, secret service, political conspiracy, race against time, white house, revolution, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, future, 70s
Place:
russia, pentagon, el paso texas, ussr, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, iron curtain, politics, political intrigue, working undercover, state affairs, secret agents, dishonesty, double agent, couple relations, museum ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
east germany, europe, berlin germany, sweden, norway ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Wife and mother Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful, serious, factual ...
Plot:
cia, newspaper, political conspiracy, secret agents, crumbling marriage, state affairs, fighting the system, price of justice, relationship vs career, journalism, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 1985, year 1993, year 1972 ...
Place:
usa, iraq, washington d.c., africa, beirut lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped ...
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suspenseful, serious, tense, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
war, iraq war, cia, swat team, pow, army, soldier, deception, gulf war, investigation, patriotism, military ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s, year 2003
Place:
iraq, middle east, baghdad iraq, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
234K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
Style:
tense, factual, suspenseful, bad ending, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, nazism, war, nazi germany, german officer, resistance, nazi, colonel, bomb, deception, treason, assassination attempt ...
Time:
year 1944, 1940s, 20th century, 40s, year 1943
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, normandy, munich germany ...
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27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller from American director John Frankenheimer. An American soldier is brainwashed into being a killer for the communist Russians during the Korean War.
Style:
political thriller, tense, suspenseful, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
conspiracy, political conspiracy, cold war, brainwashing, election, uncover truth, nightmare, nervous breakdown, senator, suicide, strangulation, communism ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1952
Place:
new york, korea, usa, ussr, north korea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, twists and turns, suspense ...
Plot:
manipulation, prison, arson, deception, seduction, manipulations, couples, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, crimes, danger, confined ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
michigan, detroit, usa, new york, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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