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The Looking Glass War (1970)
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
Style:
neo noir, political thriller, clever, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, talky, suspense ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, british intelligence, secret agent, spy, undercover, politics, undercover agent, cold war era, political intrigue, sexual assault, bare chested male, 007, communism, stasi, communist, berlin wall, covert operation, secret service agent, iron curtain, heroes, love and romance, chases and races, danger, working undercover ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, finland, geneva switzerland, germany, england, london ...
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Most similar movies to The Looking Glass War
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films with plots about spy, espionage, undercover, dishonesty, cold war, secret agent and state affairs mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Looking Glass War: The Deadly Affair (1967), The Operative (2019), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), Enigma (1982), The Executioner (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, private detective, working undercover, office, insomnia, secret agent, uncover truth, danger, infidelity, political corruption ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
britain, england, london
Similarity:
100%
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, spy, espionage, berlin wall, british intelligence, iron curtain, double agent, spy thriller, literary, politics, great ending, secret agent ...
Time:
60s, year 1965, 20th century
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, london, england, persia ...
Similarity:
68%
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:
psychological, exciting, suspense, powerful
Plot:
mossad, female spy, spy, female nudity, female secret agent, terrorist, secret agent, deception, twists and turns, state affairs, couple relations, secret service ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
iran, palestine, tehran iran, tehran
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, berlin wall, espionage, undercover, undercover agent, secret service agent, secret mission, secret agent, iron curtain, double agent, photographer ...
Time:
future, 60s, 20th century
Place:
britain, berlin germany, east berlin, west berlin west germany, england ...
Similarity:
61%
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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 ...
Plot:
iron curtain, cold war, kgb, spy, espionage, assassination, undercover, politics, danger, dishonesty, journalism, government agency ...
Time:
20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place:
east germany, germany, east berlin, paris france, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
48%
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, assassination, revenge, flashback, cold war era, covert operation, assassin, rivalry, state affairs, dishonesty, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, greece
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief "Oktober" and involved in a dangerous game ...
Style:
neo noir, political thriller, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, british intelligence, neo nazi, secret agent, stasi, ss, undercover, agent, secret service agent, secret mission ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
Similarity:
47%
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 ...
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, visually stunning, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, espionage, berlin wall, spy, funeral, 007, cold war era, betrayal, chase, covert operation, murder, hotel ...
Time:
year 1966, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, england ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, ...
Style:
grindhouse, political thriller, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
secret agent, espionage, undercover, cold war, secret service agent, 007, covert operation, undercover agent, ship, british spy, special agent, heroes ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, england, russia, hungary, glasgow scotland ...
Similarity:
45%
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, enigmatic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, conspiracy, double agent, brainwashing, undercover, politics, british, investigation, political intrigue, secret agent ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
albania, london, england, europe, scotland yard ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, assassination, iron curtain, holiday, cold war era, on the run, intelligence, invention, secret agent, child in peril ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, germany, london, east germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Professor Bower, an American physicist, is effectively blackmailed by a shady CIA agent named Adams to help the CIA obtain secret microfilm from a defecting Russian scientist. The reluctant Bower travels to East Germany undercover as an antiques ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, iron curtain, espionage, renegade, secret agent, conspiracy, hitman, race against time, danger, state affairs, escapades ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
europe, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, west germany ...
Similarity:
38%
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, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, whistleblower, british intelligence, paranoia, murder, covert operation, cold war era, russian spy, revenge, traitor ...
Time:
year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
37%
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:
suspense, enigmatic, tense, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, stasi, iron curtain, politics, murder mystery, nobility, cold war era, secrets, police investigation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, germany, europe, east berlin ...
Similarity:
35%
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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, 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:
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, state affairs, heroes, danger, chases and races, rescue, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
china
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Latvia, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
JUNG Jin-soo, a South Korean intelligence agent, comes across an unidentifiable operative, a 'ghost,' while surveilling a North Korean weapons deal in Berlin. The mystery figure is a North Korean secret agent, PYO Jong-seong, whose ...
Style:
tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot:
espionage, double agent, undercover, intrigue, hidden identity, on the run, manhunt, working undercover, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, berlin germany, germany, south korea, korea
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, espionage, undercover, computer, top secret, soldier, military, spy mission, communist, laboratory, covert operation ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
china, asia, usa, russia, london ...
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Hungary, Turkey
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:
confusing, neo noir, bleak, period piece, political ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, secret service, mole, british intelligence, investigation, double agent, kgb, government agency, secret agent, undercover ...
Time:
70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, istanbul turkey, hungary ...
Similarity:
31%
501
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:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
spy, forbidden love, cold war, espionage, kgb, secret agent, government agency, love and romance, betrayal, undercover, dishonesty, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, soviet union ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, soldier, spy, covert operation, anglo irish relations, ira, terrorism, british monarchy, assassination attempt, hitman, political conspiracy, working undercover ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, england
Similarity:
31%
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, sexy, political thriller, independent film, exciting ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, berlin wall, crisis, iron curtain, stasi, covert operation, cold war era, cavalry, couples, fall in love, espionage ...
Time:
year 1993, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place:
germany, europe, england, berlin germany
Similarity:
31%
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, sentimental, sex comedy, contemplative ...
Plot:
cold war, iron curtain, espionage, covert operation, surveillance, cold war era, politics, undercover, intrigue, secret agent, international relations, love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
lisbon portugal, russia, england, soviet union, europe ...
Similarity:
31%
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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, murder mystery, politics, police inspector, secret agent, sabotage, conspiracy, undercover, state affairs, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1880s, 18th century ...
Place:
london, england, europe, scotland, russia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, covert operation, espionage, manhunt, chases and races, heroes, state affairs, escapades, undercover, rebellion, danger, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, london, russia, england, alps ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
covert operation, spy, world war two, terrorism, violent content, secret agent, special agent, conspiracy, working undercover, government agency, danger, political intrigue ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, hong kong, england
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies ...
Style:
political thriller, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, undercover, secret agent, kgb, double agent, cold war era, agent, undercover agent, violence, paranoid, international relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, russia, europe, paris france, london ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB ...
Style:
political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, cold war era, spy thriller, surgery, plastic surgery, traitor, british intelligence, father daughter relationship, covert operation, james bond ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
soviet union, england, russia, europe, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Dong-chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover their corpses. He soon finds ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, hitman, intrigue, inter-korean relations, political conspiracy, false accusation, frame up, danger, law enforcement, betrayal, assassination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, korea
Similarity:
28%
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, espionage, iron curtain, undercover, double agent, danger, betrayal, state affairs, dishonesty, working undercover, kgb, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, france, russia, ussr
Similarity:
27%
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