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The Serpent (1973)
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Original name: Le Serpent
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 wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eurospy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, undercover, secret agent, kgb, agent, violence, undercover agent, double agent, paranoid, international relations, cold war era, soviet spy, conspiracy, intrigue, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, manhunt, political intrigue, danger, working undercover, mind game, race against time, government agency ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, russia, europe, england, paris france, london, germany ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and political thriller films with plots about espionage, undercover, spy, state affairs, secret agent, dishonesty and cold war mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Serpent: Enigma (1982), The Kremlin Letter (1970), Bullet to Beijing (1995), The Executioner (1970), The Defector (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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 ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA, Russia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, political thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, biological warfare, conspiracy, intrigue, state affairs, danger, political conspiracy, secret agent, undercover, betrayal, save the day, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
russia, beijing china, korea, europe, asia ...
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100%
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:
42%
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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 ...
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42%
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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 ...
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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:
40%
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:
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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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, mossad, espionage, impossible love, covert operation, hitman, terrorism, paranoid, wartime, secret agent, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, israel, paris france, middle east, europe
Similarity:
40%
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:
39%
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:
39%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A U.S. intelligence general (Robert Ryan) recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet (Henry Fonda), French and Italian (Vittorio Gassman) spies.
Style:
anthology, suspenseful, tense, period piece, retro ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy thriller, intelligence, agent, reconnaissance, desertion, secret mission, kidnapping, betrayal, conspiracy, undercover ...
Place:
rome italy, east berlin, paris france, africa, russia ...
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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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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, british intelligence, neo nazi, secret agent, stasi, ss, undercover, agent, secret service agent, secret mission ...
Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
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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:
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:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
Style:
romantic, independent film, serious, realistic, microfilm
Plot:
closeted homosexual, spy, male male relationship, cold war, espionage, cold war era, illicit affair, passionate kiss, law enforcement, double agent, opposites attract, caribbean sea ...
Time:
70s
Place:
caribbean, paris france, london, france, europe ...
Similarity:
36%
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 ...
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36%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in US history
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
cold war, espionage, cia, kgb, american history, national security, special agent, life is a bitch, dishonesty, undercover, state affairs, government agency ...
Time:
90s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, langley virginia
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
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:
35%
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
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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:
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Place:
soviet union, england, russia, europe, united kingdom ...
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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:
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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:
34%
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:
34%
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:
34%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, undercover, secret agent, car chase, prison, betrayal, on the run, working undercover, cold war, rivalry, danger, spy ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, russia, london, europe, 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:
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:
34%
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:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
austria, switzerland, europe, alps
Similarity:
33%
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