Movies like The Tailor of Panama
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The Tailor of Panama (2001)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
Style:
sexy, political, talky, suspense, political thriller, realistic, serious, clever, cynical, entertaining ...
Plot:
espionage, spy, politics, gangster, roman empire, mentor, adultery, brainwashing, undercover, conspiracy, 007, debt, secret agent, criminal conspiracy, covert operation, international relations, happy ending, mother son relationship, family drama, complex characters, violence, corruption, chase, spy thriller, dancing ...
Time:
year 2001, y2k, 90s, 1990s
Place:
panama, england, latin america
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Most similar movies to The Tailor of Panama
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about espionage, spy, dishonesty, conspiracy, undercover, politics and intrigue mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like The Tailor of Panama: The Good Shepherd (2006), The Russia House (1990), Safe House (1998), The Company You Keep (2012), Syriana (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in ...
Style:
tense, sexy, suspense, political, factual ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, double agent, cia, politics, corruption, conspiracy, mentor, secret agent, patriotism, invasion ...
Time:
year 1960, 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, year 1961 ...
Place:
cuba, usa, london, berlin germany, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 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: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret ...
Style:
political, mind bending, exciting, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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sexy, suspense, captivating, light, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, michigan, new york, canada, vermont ...
Similarity:
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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.
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political, black and white, suspense, grim, realistic ...
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Time:
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Place:
east germany, berlin germany, london, england, persia ...
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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 ...
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
middle east, jordan, iraq, syria, washington d.c. ...
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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:
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Time:
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Place:
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43%
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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:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 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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Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, tense, political, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, islam, war on terror, surveillance, immigrant, secret service, investigation, betrayal, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
conspiracy, cold war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, assassin, manipulation, nightmare, senator, cold war era, communism, korean war, election ...
Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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:
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Place:
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Country: UK, France, USA
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Story:
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Style:
entertaining, exciting, intense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, enigmatic, psychological
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, russia, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
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Style:
political, intense, brutal, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 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: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, sexy, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A U.S. Army general alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Style:
political thriller, tense, political, black and white, suspense ...
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
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
france, israel, paris france, middle east, europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, intense, political, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
political thriller, psychological, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, exciting, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
spy, undercover, bodyguard, workplace, betrayal, surveillance, deception, danger, uninhibited rivalry, revenge, conspiracy, boss and employee ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
39%
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:
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Time:
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Place:
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