Movies like The Quiet American
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The Quiet American (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Vietnam, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.
Style:
realistic, political, period piece, atmospheric, talky, intense, serious, political thriller, sincere, cult classic ...
Plot:
politics, older man younger woman relationship, journalism, cia, love triangle, moral ambiguity, tragedy, complex characters, communism, reporter, cold war, war crime, political unrest, dishonesty, state affairs, cia agent, colonialism, secrets, prejudice, betrayal, murder, terrorism, political intrigue, journalist, affair ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1952, 2000s, year 2002, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, southeast asia, indochina, asia, london, hong kong, saigon ...
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Most similar movies to The Quiet American
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, political and suspenseful films with plots about politics, betrayal, state affairs, murder, death, espionage and cold war mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Quiet American: The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Constant Gardener (2005), The Parallax View (1974), Indochine (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, USA, Philippines
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There, on the eve of an attempted coup, he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people and ...
Style:
political, atmospheric, art house, tropical, historically accurate ...
Plot:
journalism, journalist, politics, photograph, diplomat, embassy, photography, closeted homosexual, reporter, photographer, secrets, genocide ...
Time:
year 1982, 20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place:
australia, east asia, the philippines, asia, indonesia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style:
costume drama, epic, period piece, breathtaking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war one, revolution, war, communism, love story, train, forbidden love, rape, poet, deportation, love triangle, wartime ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 1940s, ancient times ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Kenya, France, USA, Switzerland, Canada, Brazil
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, political, suspense, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
conspiracy, marriage, spy, lovers, death, murder, politics, corruption, passion, investigation, aids, idealism ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
africa, sudan, germany, london, kenya ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political, intense ...
Plot:
politics, conspiracy, reporter, corruption, political conspiracy, journalism, murder, investigation, undercover, paranoia, assassin, media ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
The story starts in the 1930s at one of the largest rubber-tree plantations in Indochine (Vietnam). This plantation is owned by the French colonist Eliane, a proud woman who lives with her father and her native adoptive daughter Camille. She ...
Style:
visual, realistic, epic, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
colonialism, adoption, terrorist, women, vietnam war, love story, politics, dictatorship, dictator, interracial relations, naval officer, passion ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 1992, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
southeast asia, vietnam, indochina, asia, france ...
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80%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last ...
Style:
brutal, disturbing, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
genocide, journalism, missing person, violence, murder, photograph, photojournalist, photographer, civil war, blood, battles, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, balkan, eastern europe, europe, serbia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian ...
Style:
meditative, talky, light, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
politics, military, soldier, military life, political unrest, wartime life, moral dilemma, state affairs, injustice, basic training, anti war, family life ...
Time:
year 1994, 1920s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe, tokyo, rio de janeiro, japan
Similarity:
100%
16K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Style:
suspense, intense, suspenseful, factual, realistic ...
Plot:
propaganda, woman, female spy, atomic bomb, closeted homosexual, politics, world war two, soviet spy, female secret agent, espionage, war crime, love ...
Time:
year 1945, year 1946, year 1941, year 2019, 1940s ...
Place:
soviet union, canada, russia, hiroshima japan, montreal ...
Similarity:
100%
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179K
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style:
sexy, suspense, period piece, tense, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, nazi, female agent, love, secret mission, double agent, betrayal, prospector, female spy, undercover ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, year 1942, future, 2010s ...
Place:
london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her ...
Style:
political, erotic, realistic, atmospheric, anthology ...
Plot:
love affair, monk, civil war, terrorist, photograph, social commentary, violence, wartime, islam, politics, muslim, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, london, bosnia, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
revolution, kidnapping, doctor, rebel, diplomat, political unrest, starting over, politics, alcoholic, male nudity, prostitute, sex scene ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
latin america, paraguay, argentina, south america
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:
45%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his ...
Style:
neo noir, period piece, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, world war two, investigation, nazi, sex shop, justice, haunted by the past, journalism, uncover truth, love of one's life, love affair, cold war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2006, post world war two, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, ...
Style:
period piece, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gestapo, world war two, wartime, spy, nazi, nazism, terrorist, world war, double agent, ethnic conflict, organized crime, greed ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944, post world war two
Place:
denmark, germany, copenhagen, scandinavia, europe ...
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42%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
Style:
political, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
journalism, reporter, photograph, female nudity, photographer, adoption, child, cold war, lebanese civil war, correspondents, nude girl, raf ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
lebanon, germany, middle east, west berlin west germany, east berlin ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Three U.S. journalists (Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman) get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Style:
political, atmospheric, serious, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
photojournalist, journalism, politics, photographer, photograph, reporter, idealism, revolution, photography, military, media, political unrest ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, year 1983
Place:
nicaragua, latin america, central america, ireland
Similarity:
42%
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:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
college, vietnam war, lottery, friendship, anti war, politics, coming of age, teenage life, fighting the system, political unrest, love affair, youth ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, year 1971
Place:
vietnam, ohio, usa, asia, cambodia ...
Similarity:
42%
138K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
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, cerebral, political, intense, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, corruption, cia, capitalism, spy, oil, globalization, conspiracy, middle east conflict, politics, terrorist ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, lebanon, usa, israel ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, romantic, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
espionage, war, french resistance, nazi, holocaust, world war two, wartime life, women, resistance, wartime, secret agent, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 2001, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
france, london, paris france, europe, scotland ...
Similarity:
41%
8K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, period piece, romantic drama ...
Plot:
nazi, politics, writers, nazi germany, third reich, moral dilemma, state affairs, society, political unrest, wartime life, holocaust, illicit affair ...
Time:
1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1937, year 1933 ...
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, paris france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service's African section, is seen taking a file with him to meet his girlfriend Cynthia- the brass fears he may be the leak to Moscow, and allows Dr. Percival to terminate the ...
Style:
medical drama, political thriller, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, interracial romance, double agent, conspiracy, covert operation, politics, suspicion, intrigue, interracial marriage, traitor ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
britain, england, africa, europe, south africa ...
Similarity:
41%
249K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
political thriller, political, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
terrorism, spy, cia, espionage, cia agent, intelligence agency, terrorist, undercover, secret service, government agency, roman empire, politics ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
middle east, jordan, iraq, syria, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
41%
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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:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jake Cassevetes is a world renowned shooter just back from being embedded during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. As a well-paid stringer for the networks, Jake does not buy into the currently vogue, left-wing conspiracy theory of a corporate-controlled ...
Style:
disturbing, clever, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot:
anarchist, conspiracy, politics, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, injustice, political unrest, anarchism, anarchy ...
Time:
september 11 2001
Place:
iraq, afghanistan, new york, usa, middle east ...
Similarity:
41%
252K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
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:
political, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, assassination, mossad, vengeance, judaism, politics, terrorist, vigilante, revenge, spy, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA, Malta
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
espionage, treason, undercover, cold war, spy, betrayal, heroic mission, love affair, working undercover, secret agent, journalism, race against time ...
Time:
year 2004, 60s
Place:
middle east, russia, new york, moscow russia, soviet union ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, spy, politics, undercover, cold war, kgb, nuclear bomb, secret agent, conspiracy, closeted homosexual, chase, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and ...
Style:
erotic, political, eros, scenic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dictatorship, politics, military coup, female nudity, escape, lust, photographer, military, hospital, rebellion, investigation, justice ...
Time:
70s, year 1994, year 1973, 1920s
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, europe, spain ...
Similarity:
40%
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:
40%
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