Movies like The Debt
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The Debt (2010)
72K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Israel
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 the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, exciting, talky, realistic, serious, psychological thriller, political ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mossad, spy, war criminal, cold war, secret agent, nazi hunter, espionage, nazi, kidnapping, female protagonist, corruption, idealism, moral ambiguity, ex husband ex wife relationship, nazi war criminal, world war two, moral dilemma, haunted by the past, righting the wronged, holocaust survivor, war crime, revenge, assassin, secrets, surveillance ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1966, year 1997, 1960s ...
Place:
israel, middle east, germany, east germany, berlin germany, kiev ukraine, east berlin ...
Keyword:
jewish, german, reboot, oldies, doctors, challenge
Most similar movies to The Debt
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and suspense films with plots about spy, espionage, undercover, secret agent, agent, politics and conspiracy mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres. Some movies like The Debt: Munich (2005), Operation Finale (2018), The Odessa File (1974), Walk on Water (2004), Black Book (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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237K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
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, suspense, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, espionage, vengeance, assassination, mossad, judaism, politics, murder, spy, terrorist, islamic terrorism, cia ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, year 1972
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style:
period piece, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense, art house ...
Plot:
war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, chase, manhunt, israeli, secret agent, spy ...
Time:
60s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1960, year 1945 ...
Place:
israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, political ...
Plot:
espionage, investigation, nazi, spy, world war two, war criminal, conspiracy, holocaust, journalism, mossad, war crime, neo nazi ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964, post world war two, year 1963
Place:
germany, hamburg germany, israel, west germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
gay, mossad, hitman, lgbt, male pubic hair, redemption, murder, israeli, family secret, judaism, machismo, gay slur ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
israel, germany, middle east, berlin germany, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Germany, UK, Belgium
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
Style:
tense, erotic, psychological, realistic, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, espionage, spy, nazism, nazi, war, revenge, resistance, occupation, gestapo, ss ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, dramatic, intense, historical drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cold war, lawyer, espionage, spy, cia, justice, courtroom, court, trial, berlin wall, soviet spy, negotiation ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
berlin wall, trial, haunted by the past, undercover, family life, hidden truth, dishonesty, stasi, testimony, lawyer, new life, female protagonist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 2012, year 1969, year 1990
Place:
germany, german democratic republic, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Style:
exciting, psychological, suspense, powerful
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
239K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
terrorism, spy, cia, espionage, cia agent, terrorist, intelligence agency, secret service, government agency, conspiracy, danger, politics ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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134K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
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, suspense, cerebral, political, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
middle east, usa, israel, iran, lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
637K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, clever, captivating, political ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid raising suspicions from the inquisitive and ruthless authorities, they establish as a cover a fake ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
journalism, cia, courtroom drama, reporter, lawyer, investigation, media, courtroom, corruption, murder, espionage, spy ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, conspiracy, spy, double agent, brainwashing, politics, undercover, investigation, british, political intrigue, secret agent ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
london, albania, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
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:
clever, confusing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
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Plot:
cold war, spy, espionage, secret service, investigation, british intelligence, mole, double agent, kgb, conspiracy, surveillance, intelligence ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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, political thriller ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
spy, mossad, espionage, wartime, paranoid, terrorism, hitman, secret agent, intrigue, government agency, dishonesty, politics ...
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Place:
france, paris france, israel, europe, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 122 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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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ...
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20%
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
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suspenseful, suspense, political, realistic, harsh ...
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20%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
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19%
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Duration: 109 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ...
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19%
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Story:
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Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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