Movies and TV shows like Family of Spies

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Family of Spies (1990)
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Family of Spies (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story: Fact based story of John A. Walker, Jr., a Navy Chief Warrant Officer with access to top secret cryptographic communications. As a result of mounting debts, he sold secrets to the Soviets in 1967, a practice that he continued thereafter. He further sought to involve his four children into the espionage until his wife caught onto his activities.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: espionage, spy, real life, betrayal, heroes, politics, undercover, parents and children, working undercover, political conspiracy, head of state, political unrest, government agency, buddies, dishonesty, state affairs, couple relations, secret agent, special agent, fbi, cold war, family relations, father son relationship, motel, security ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: russia, washington d.c.

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Most similar movies to Family of Spies

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films and TV series with plots about spy, undercover, state affairs, espionage, secret agent, dishonesty and government agency mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Family of Spies: Pack of Lies (1987), I Know You Know (2008), Agent X (2015), Agent of Influence (2002), HaMidrasha (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pack of Lies (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A couple learns that their friendly neighbours might be Russian spies.
Style: tense, talky, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: betrayal, russian spy, friendship, secret agent, best friend, friends, couples, kgb, suburbs, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time: 80s, year 1961, 60s
Place: scotland yard, england, europe, london, united kingdom ...
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100%
I Know You Know (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for ...
Style: uplifting, semi serious, touching, witty, exciting ...
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, government agency, parents and children, working undercover, state affairs, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, eccentric family, undercover, parent child relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Drama. TV Movie.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, fbi, rise and fall, undercover, secret agent, fbi agent, double agent, government agency, betrayal, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.1
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Agent X (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, spy, heroic mission, politics, state affairs, undercover, vice president, heroes, conspiracy, strong female presence, daughter
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Agent of Influence (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by Ian Adams. Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat. At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ...
Style: realistic, bleak, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Plot: espionage, head of state, undercover, rebellion, state affairs, dishonesty, heroes, cold war, cia, diplomacy, intrigue, spying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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HaMidrasha (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mossad, israeli, spy, secret agent, government agency, undercover, state affairs, training, espionage, rivalry, terrorism, military training
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 7.4
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Legends (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, espionage, spy, special agent, state affairs, betrayal, fbi, chases and races, dishonesty, on the run, government agency, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Smiley's People (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: cold war, espionage, british intelligence, spy, investigation, working undercover, secret mission, politics, traitor, intelligence, mysticism, spy thriller ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: britain, hamburg germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Innocent (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman who will take him on the dark side of evil.
Style: sexual, political thriller, independent film, sexy, exciting ...
Plot: spy, cold war, berlin wall, iron curtain, stasi, cavalry, crisis, danger, espionage, secret agent, couples, infidelity ...
Time: year 1993, 50s, 1950s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The Duchess (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: The life of the Duchess of Alba La vida de la Duquesa de Alba
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, romantic
Plot: duchess, royal family, aristocracy, love and romance, political unrest, society, family relations, state affairs, fall in love, parents and children, couple relations, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 50s ...
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mossad, world war two, holocaust, nazi, judaism, kidnapping, nazi war criminal, post war, self control, disorder, righting the wronged, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: israel, latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998)
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, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: cold war, espionage, cia, american history, national security, kgb, special agent, state affairs, government agency, undercover, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia, langley virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 720 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
Style: political thriller, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: espionage, world war one, intrigue, nazi, politics, great war, international relations, intelligence, double agent, secret agent, dishonesty, undercover ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
Place: russia, britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 5K
The Company (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 286 min.
TV show
Story: Real-life figures from the Cold War era mix with a fictional story based on a group of CIA operatives and their counterparts in the KGB, MI6, and the Mossad.
Style: captivating, tense, bleak, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, cia, spy, mole, politics, intrigue, suspicion, double life, state affairs, betrayal, power relations, danger ...
Time: 50s, 70s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: germany, europe, cuba, hungary, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Gordin Cell (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A married pair of former spies is forced to face their past when asked to surrender their son to Russian Intelligence to become a spy himself. Will he choose to betray his parents or his native country?
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, clever ...
Plot: betrayal, double agent, moral dilemma, espionage, workplace situations, parents and children, family relations, who to trust, secret agent, special agent, dishonesty, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
House of Hancock (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: House of Hancock tells the epic true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang, his daughter Gina, and his beautiful Filipina housekeeper Rose.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, saga, epic
Plot: family business, fall in love, family relations, rivalry, parents and children, courtroom drama, betrayal, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, family problems, legal, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: australia, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Cambridge Spies (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: In 1934, four brilliant Cambridge men are recruited to spy for Russia. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice and a talent for lying, they take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Based on true ...
Style: serious, realistic, contemplative, tense, suspense ...
Plot: kgb, treason, espionage, politics, traitor, betrayal, university, spy, communist, cold war, secret agent, hidden identity ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, england, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Astronaut Wives Club (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the book by Lily Koppel, this 10 episode limited series tells the story of the women who were key players behind some of the biggest events in American history. As America’s astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, Life ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, psychological, period drama
Plot: astronaut, relationship vs career, family relations, nasa, best friend, ambition, couples, parents and children, strong female presence, space program, women, post war ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Space (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
Story: A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970's.
Style: captivating, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot: astronaut, nasa, space exploration, exploration, moon landing, space program, test pilot, outer space, u.s. senator, spacewalk, ufo, space station ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 50s, 20th century, 60s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.7
 3K
The Game (2014)
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: atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, clever, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: spy, conspiracy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, twists and turns, state affairs, dishonesty, undercover, government agency, intelligence, post war ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Agency (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. The series was created by Michael Frost Beckner and was executive produced by Michael Frost Beckner, Shaun Cassidy Productions and Radiant Productions in association ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, cerebral, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, terrorism, cia, undercover, working undercover, state affairs, government agency, national security, conspiracy, intelligence, secret agent, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Little Nikita (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, ...
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: fbi, cold war, teenager, investigation, death, teenage boy, killer, name calling, family relations, spy, youth, hidden identity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, san diego california, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 7K
Farewell (2009)
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, spy, iron curtain, double agent, undercover, dishonesty, danger, state affairs, betrayal, working undercover, kgb, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 80s
Place: france, soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Enigma (1982)
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: cold war, iron curtain, spy, kgb, espionage, assassination, politics, danger, dishonesty, government agency, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: east germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Pascali's Island (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, independent film, period drama
Plot: unrequited love, spy, cold war, secret mission, mediterranean, love triangle, island, female nudity, male nudity, turkish bath, state affairs, love and romance ...
Time: 1900s, pre world war one
Place: greece, ottoman empire, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
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: mossad, espionage, terrorism, secret agent, intrigue, politics, state affairs, political intrigue, danger, dishonesty, mistaken identity, double agent ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, lebanon, beirut lebanon, israel, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
My Little Assassin (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years' before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the attention of Fidel Castro, the country's rebel president. He invites her to be his ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere
Plot: spy, politician, special agent, politics, assassination, state affairs, love and romance, fall in love, translator, political unrest, love affair, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Proof (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The discovery of a connection between a small-time thief's murder and the death of a crooked accountant, peeks the interest of investigative reporter Terry Corcoran. Further digging leads him into a sordid scandal involving human trafficking, ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, undercover, uncover truth, journalism, fighting crime, workplace, power relations, dishonesty, media, political conspiracy, political corruption, price of justice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.2
 255
Brezhnev (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 208 min.
TV show
Story: About the last days of Leonid Brezhnev, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He is sick and depressed, but he is still trying to enjoy some pleasures of life. He is hunting, eating, and sleeping a lot. While awake, he is ...
Style: realistic, serious, political thriller, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: political leader, kremlin, state affairs, old man, politics, death of protagonist, evil man, political conspiracy, abuse of power, betrayal, deception, leadership ...
Time: 80s
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.6
 3K
X Company (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: An emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits - Canadian, American and British - torn from their ordinary lives ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, spy, secret agent, heroic mission, undercover, danger, rivalry, friendship, nazi, strength, world war ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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