Movies like The Patriots

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The Patriots (1994)
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The Patriots (1994)
Original name: Les Patriotes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Ariel, un jeune Juif français, décide de quitter sa famille pour partir en Israël et devenir un agent du Mossad, les services secrets israéliens. En participant à des missions à Paris, Tel Aviv et Washington, il sera initié à l'art délicat de la manipulation.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, mossad, espionage, impossible love, hitman, terrorism, wartime, paranoid, covert operation, secret agent, politics, undercover, conspiracy, intrigue, rebellion, society, manipulation, working undercover, introspection, moral dilemma, idealism, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france, israel, middle east, europe

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Most similar movies to The Patriots

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about spy, undercover, espionage, secret agent, state affairs, danger and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like The Patriots: The Gordin Cell (2012), Triple Agent (2004), Secrets of State (2008), Möbius (2013), The Little Drummer Girl (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Gordin Cell (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?
Style: tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: spy, espionage, moral dilemma, betrayal, double agent, parents and children, who to trust, family relations, workplace situations, dishonesty, manipulation, secret agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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Triple Agent (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, enigmatic, psychological
Plot: spy, politics, secret agent, government agency, betrayal, life is a bitch, undercover, political corruption, rebellion, dishonesty, uncover truth, love triangle ...
Time: 1930s
Place: france, russia, paris france, europe
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Secrets of State (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense ...
Plot: counter terrorism, terrorist, politics, espionage, spy, intelligence agency, terrorism, prison rape, secret agent, political conspiracy, race against time, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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100%
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Möbius (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An FSB officer fall in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot: espionage, fall in love, secret mission, love and romance, dishonesty, financial crisis, one night stand, cia, 007, secret agent, cia agent, covert operation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: cote d'azur, europe, monaco, moscow russia
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The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Style: political thriller, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mossad, espionage, undercover, terrorism, secret agent, intrigue, politics, terrorist, state affairs, danger, dishonesty, double agent ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, beirut lebanon, lebanon, england, germany ...
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The Serpent (1973)
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 ...
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32%
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Enigma (1982)
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 ...
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A Few Days in September (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Portugal
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 1 September 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène, a French agent who used to ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, political thriller, tense
Plot: 9/11, secret agent, state affairs, undercover, dishonesty, parents and children, terrorism, sniper, intelligence agency, sexual tension, covert operation, professional killer ...
Time: september 11 2001, future, 21st century
Place: paris france, venice, france, europe, italy ...
Similarity:
29%
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Spy(ies) (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Vincent is a bright young man but has introverted personality. He is working as a baggage handler at an airport and refuses to follow a career path accordingly to his education. With his colleague, Gerard, Vincent used to steal objects from the ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: british secret service, espionage, terrorism, undercover, female spy, danger, love and romance, dishonesty, secret agent, terrorist attack, syrian war, profanity ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, london, syria, paris france, france ...
Similarity:
28%
Operation Sunflower (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: politics, undercover, political intrigue, danger, state affairs, government agency, government facility, international crisis, mossad, nuclear, terrorism, spy ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place: israel, middle east, lebanon, jerusalem, france ...
Similarity:
28%
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Farewell (2009)
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:
28%
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The Bureau (2015)
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: political thriller, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
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:
28%
 7.6
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Madras Cafe (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An Indian Intelligence agent journeys into a war torn coastal island, to break a resolute rebel group. He deftly maneuvers his resources to make significant breakthroughs, amidst a scenario where the enemy has no face and the only counsel is ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, patriotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, spy, politics, conspiracy, undercover, manipulation, secret agent, state affairs, escapades, dishonesty, assassination attempt, civil war ...
Time: year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place: india, asia, sri lanka
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Sword of Gideon (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Style: action thriller, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: mossad, terrorist, terrorism, conflict, olympics, revenge, israeli palestinian conflict, arab israeli conflict, murder, workplace situations, chases and races, contests and competitions ...
Time: 80s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, munich germany
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27%
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Complicit (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?
Style: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terrorism, secret agent, government agency, undercover, danger, spy, terrorist plot, counter terrorism, conspiracy, investigation, war on terror, conspiracy theory ...
Time: 21st century
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27%
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Autobus (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Bruno's girlfriend, who lives in another town, doesn't believe he loves her. Therefore, he decides to prove his love by doing something "crazy" and ends up hijacking a school bus full of children at gunpoint to go see her
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching
Plot: rage, madness, disorder, unlikely criminals, unfulfillment, confined, love and romance, on the road, unfulfilled love, bus, wooing, hijacking ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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26%
The Secret Agent (1996)
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:
26%
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Confess (2005)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 89 min.
Story: political thriller that charts the exploits of disillusioned ex-hacker Terell Lessor. A return to New York, coupled with a humiliating attempt at getting a new job, serves as the catalyst for him to take action against those who slighted him in the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, prodigy, undercover, secret agent, campaign, fighting the system, society, dishonesty, rebellion, vengeance, rivalry, politics ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Similarity:
25%
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The Informant (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: terrorism, ira, struggle, conflict, 007, spy, anglo irish relations, freedom, trouble, dishonesty, introspection, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
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25%
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HaMidrasha (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mossad, spy, espionage, israeli, secret agent, undercover, government agency, state affairs, training, rivalry, secret service, academy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, lebanon
Similarity:
25%
 7.7
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Kfulim (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: The series, loosely based on the true story of the assassination in Dubai of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh - the co-founder of military wing of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas on 19 January 2010, revolves around five ordinary ...
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: mossad, secret agent, spy, terrorist group, hostage, criminal, abduction, investigation, dishonesty, villain, danger, frame up ...
Place: israel, middle east, lebanon, iran
Similarity:
25%
 7.3
 3K
The Agency (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant Productions in association ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, cerebral, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, terrorism, undercover, working undercover, government agency, state affairs, national security, cia, terrorist, conspiracy, covert operation, intelligence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Similarity:
25%
 6.8
 74K
The Debt (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Israel, Hungary, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, exciting, talky, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mossad, spy, war criminal, redemption, nazi hunter, cold war, secret agent, espionage, passionate kiss, nazi, nazi war criminal, kidnapping ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1997, year 1966 ...
Place: middle east, israel, germany, berlin germany, kiev ukraine ...
Similarity:
23%
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The Defector (1966)
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:
23%
The Listening (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, surveillance, secret agent, manhunt, on the run, rivalry, political conspiracy, life turned upside down, working undercover, undercover, danger, dishonesty ...
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
Similarity:
23%
 6.2
 21K
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, 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:
23%
 4.8
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The Insurgents (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, conspiracy, politics, bomb, rebellion, danger, society, vengeance, terrorism, state affairs, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Similarity:
23%
The Infiltrator (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Infiltrator is an American film about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany circa the early 1990's and uncovers a story about a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction, who are intent to bring Nazism back to the ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: skinhead, world war two, neo nazi, neo nazism, spy, nazi, judaism, undercover, journalism, racism, immigrant, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, europe
Similarity:
22%
The Enemy Within (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, political thriller
Plot: coup d'etat, conspiracy, terrorism, political corruption, state affairs, betrayal, government agency, undercover, manhunt, special agent, revolution, danger ...
Time: 90s
Similarity:
22%
 6.2
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Blank Bullet (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Israel
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Inspired by the unfortunate event of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin we are proud to bring you the dramatic feature of Haim Bouzaglo, Blank Bullet. Amos Snir, the head of the Shin Bet, has just 60 hours during which time he must prevent the next ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, political thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: criminal psychologist, special agent, society, state affairs, government agency, danger, social decay, law enforcement, assassination, investigation, conspiracy, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
Similarity:
22%