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The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
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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 where each side tries to find out the enemy's headquarters at any price.
Style:
neo noir, political thriller, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, eurospy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, neo nazi, british intelligence, secret agent, ss, stasi, undercover, agent, undercover agent, berlin wall, secret service agent, secret mission, cold war era, heroes, gang, racism, rivalry, political intrigue, danger, working undercover, murder, car chase, bomb ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 1960s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and political thriller films with plots about undercover, spy, espionage, secret agent, dishonesty, cold war and state affairs mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Quiller Memorandum: Gorky Park (1983), The Deadly Affair (1967), To Commit a Murder (1967), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Kremlin Letter (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a ...
Style:
detective, suspense, political, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, murder, conspiracy, murder mystery, police investigation, murder investigation, kgb agent, espionage, secret agent, politics, spy thriller ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
moscow russia, russia, stockholm sweden, ussr, eastern europe ...
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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:
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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: 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:
45%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
britain, berlin germany, east berlin, west berlin west germany, england ...
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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:
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Time:
60s, year 1965, 20th century
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, london, england, persia ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China ...
Style:
neo noir, political thriller, visually stunning, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, covert operation, spy thriller, cold war era, undercover agent, undercover, secret agent, manhunt, female impersonator, letter ...
Time:
60s
Place:
russia, moscow russia, soviet union, china, asia ...
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
britain, london, england, united kingdom, hamburg germany ...
Similarity:
42%
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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, contemplative, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, british intelligence, secret agent, spy, undercover, cold war era, politics, undercover agent, sexual assault, bare chested male, political intrigue ...
Time:
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Place:
east germany, berlin germany, geneva switzerland, finland, germany ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Finland
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:
cold war, spy, espionage, computer, anti communism, spy thriller, cold war era, russian spy, secret service agent, martial arts, woman with a gun, revolt ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
helsinki finland, finland, england, texas, russia ...
Similarity:
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, istanbul turkey, hungary ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.
Style:
political thriller, grindhouse, retro, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, undercover, conspiracy, doppelganger, secret agent, cia, cia agent, lookalikes, undercover agent, mistaken identity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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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 ...
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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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 107 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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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 113 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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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, england, berlin germany
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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:
talky, clever, serious, political thriller, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, britain, europe, paris france ...
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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
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, intrigue, semi nudity, espionage, fashion, safecracker, witnessing a crime, chases and races, law enforcement, split personality, undercover, gang ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
morocco, africa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada, russia
Similarity:
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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:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A color remake of the Sam Fuller film, Pickup on South Street.
Style:
suspense, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggle business.
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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Similarity:
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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:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
London 1972. When a defecting KGB officer, Arkady Malinov, reveals Operation Glass, a devastating Soviet plot that could change the course of the Cold War, Daddy, the head of MI5, assembles a secret team to investigate. As the Soviets awaken a list ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, soviet union, ussr, london
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A spy thriller telling a historically based story of a man who alone dares to challenge Soviets being in the middle of the communistic system himself. Planning the maneuvers of Warsaw Pact forces he discovers that the American plans of nuclear ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, europe, soviet union, warsaw poland, ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
Style:
suspenseful, talky, witty, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
espionage, spy, murder, political intrigue, gangster, justice, assassination, twists and turns, professor, intrigue, investigation, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, oxford university, europe, middle east
Similarity:
34%
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:
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Time:
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Place:
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