Movies and TV shows like Return of the Saint

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Return of the Saint (1978)
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Return of the Saint (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Return of the Saint was a British action-adventure television series that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain on ITV, and was also broadcast on CBS in the United States. It was co-produced by ITC Entertainment and the Italian broadcaster RAI and ran for 24 episodes.
Style: detective, eurospy
Plot: spy, private detective, robin hood, terrorist, agent, assassin, criminal, helicopter, mission, manhunt, drug, drugs
Time: 70s
Place: europe

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Most similar movies to Return of the Saint

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, captivating, realistic and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about spy, private detective, investigation, police, espionage, mission and private investigator mostly in Crime, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Return of the Saint: The Protectors (1972), Search (1972), Department S (1969), Campion (1989), Man in a Suitcase (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Protectors (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. ...
Style: detective
Plot: spy, espionage, teamwork, investigation, private detective, female detective, mission, private investigator, bullet
Time: 70s
Place: london, italy, paris france
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95%
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Search (1972)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe. When picked up for series ...
Style: cerebral, detective
Plot: spy, private investigator, operative, hi-tech, computer cracker, technology, mission, intrigue
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79%
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Department S (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and ...
Style: detective
Plot: spy, police, interpol, analyst, investigation, paranormal investigation, paranormal, playboy, paranormal phenomena, scientist, womanizer, teamwork ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Campion (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and ...
Style: detective, crime drama, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: inspector, world war one, police, investigation, murder, law enforcement, private detective, danger, riddles and clues, multiple suspects, partner, murder investigation ...
Time: 1930s, future, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Man in a Suitcase (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Man in a Suitcase is a 1967–1968 British television series produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. It originally aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from 27 September 1967, to 17 April 1968. ABC broadcast episodes of Man in a Suitcase in ...
Style: detective, neo noir, eurospy
Plot: spy, wartime, law enforcement, bounty hunter, private detective, drifter, gunslinger, british, modern western, martial arts, loner, former spy ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, europe, england
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56%
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Jason King (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before ...
Style: detective, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: spy, police, secret agent, playboy, rivalry, adventurer, heroes, heroic mission, womanizer, riddles and clues, undercover, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Fifth Commandment (2008)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell is a German television series.
Style: captivating, detective, psychological
Plot: investigation, private detective, priest, murder investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, police detective, police investigation, who done it, criminal
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Saint (1962)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character Simon Templar, played by Roger Moore as a suave and sophisticated Robin Hood-like ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, vintage
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, law enforcement, undercover, 007, wartime, woman with a gun, inspector, private detective, police, thief, adventurer ...
Time: future, 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Visit to Minotaur (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: The apartment of the famous violin player Lev Polyakov has been robbed. Among other things, thieves took a violin made by Antonio Stradivari, which is a priceless masterpiece. Inspector Tikhonov have to investigate this crime. Also, Antonio ...
Style: detective
Plot: musician, art theft, psychedelia, theft, militia, violin
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Operation Atlantis (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America.
Style: eurospy
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, atlantis, secret agent, shooting, city, agent, secret, spying, woman shot, high heels
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Magician (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Magician is an American television series that ran during the 1973–1974 season. It starred Bill Bixby as stage illusionist Anthony "Tony" Blake, a playboy philanthropist who used his skills to solve difficult crimes as needed. In the ...
Style: detective
Plot: magician, police, crime investigation, escape artist, stage magician, crime fighter, magic
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Burke's Law (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured ...
Style: retro, detective
Plot: spy, camp, police, rolls royce, police detective, murder, millionaire, police officer, police captain, police sergeant
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Persuaders! (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Persuaders! is a 1971 action/adventure series, produced by ITC Entertainment for initial broadcast on ITV and ABC. It has been called "the last major entry in the cycle of adventure series that had begun eleven years earlier with Danger Man ...
Style: detective, realistic, semi serious, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, fandom, 007, investigation, spy, city, partners against crime, police investigation, undercover, rivalry, law enforcement, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, france, london, riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Agent X-77 Orders to Kill (1966)
Genre: Adventure
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-rocket-fuel.
Style: eurospy
Plot: cold war, james bond spoof, espionage, secret formula, rocket, spy, agent, bare chested male, spying, hung by wrists
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 154 min.
TV show
Story: The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of ...
Style: natural horror, detective
Plot: sherlock holmes, love, folklore, psychedelia, doctor, heir, englishman, neighbor, private detective, inheritance, haunting, naturalist ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: soviet union, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Perseguidos (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story: Persecuted (Mauricio Islas) José Vicente Solís Armenta is a criminal prosecuted for justice for his crimes against humanity. After being betrayed, the authorities finally manage to track him down and want him dead or alive. Solís Armenta, on his ...
Style: detective, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: game of death, mind game, criminal, male female relationship, problem, deception, forensics, manhunt, relationships, bandit, nordic
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Callan (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: spy, espionage, wartime, politics, law enforcement, british intelligence, british, assassin, bandit, assassination, murder, one man army ...
Time: 70s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Legend of Robin Hood (1975)
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.
Plot: robin hood, medieval, archer, royalty, monk
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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What Has the Deceased Said (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Comedy
Country: Russia, Poland, France, Germany, Denmark
TV show
Style: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: irony, mafia, treasure hunt, hidden treasure, treasure hunter, treasure map, bandit, escapades, gang, treasure chest, female protagonist, humour ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
Style: psychotronic, twisted, perverse, cult classic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, snake, exploitation, poison, martial arts, macabre, femme fatale, teenage life, woman in danger, dishonesty, rivalry, undercover ...
Time: 60s
Place: peru, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Chef Is a Great Detective (2021)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Mifune Shinobu is a chef for a French restaurant. He learned French cooking at restaurants in the countryside of France more than 10 years ago. Shinobu doesn’t talk much and he is calm, but he has a warm heart and he is considerate of other ...
Style: detective, captivating, psychological
Plot: chef, cooking, restaurant, food, secret, private detective, sleuth, crime investigation, uncover truth, forensics, crime solving, investigation ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Saeki Shuichi was a detective, but he quit his job. He now works at a detective agency. One day, a couple asks the detective agency to find a man named Sakagami. The man killed the couple's son and served at a youth detention center. Kogure ...
Style: detective
Plot: detective agency, investigation, killer, murder, released from prison, parents, murderer, surveillance
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
License to Kill (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying apparatus. An international crime gang is very interested in stealing this equipement to sell it to the ...
Style: detective, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, private investigator, secretary, hung by wrists, dead woman on bed, stockings, bound and gagged, explosion
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Delta Factor (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cia, prison, island, kidnapping, rescue, special agent, injustice, righting the wronged, captivity, wrongfully committed, heist ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Dandy (2015)
Genre: Crime
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story: Inspired by the 1997 American drama Donnie Brasco, El Dandy tells the story of a law professor who has been hired by the Attorney General, to participate in a program of special operations, where you must infiltrate one of the most notorious drug ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, detective, telenovela
Plot: mafia, criminal, war on drugs, drug lord, moral dilemma, drug bust, fighting crime, organized crime, showdown, drug dealer, police, police officer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Belascoaran, PI (2022)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: Héctor Belascoarán leaves his corporate job and dull marriage to become an independent detective and tackle shocking criminal cases in 1970s Mexico City.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, detective
Plot: investigation, private investigator, private investigation, sleuth, private detective, crime solving, forensics, homicide detective, uncover truth, murder investigation, crime investigation, criminal ...
Time: 70s, year 1974
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The New Mike Hammer (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Stacy Keach in the title role, is a television series that originally aired on CBS from January 28, 1984 to January 12, 1985. The series was 24 sixty minute episodes. The show follows the adventures of Mike ...
Style: detective
Plot: private detective, private investigator, woman with a gun, police, investigation, hard boiled
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Famous Five (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series in 1978 and 1979. It was produced by Southern Television in 26 half-hour episodes.
Style: detective
Audience: kids
Plot: children, dog, strong female character, family relations, friendship, amateur sleuth, tough girl, strong female lead
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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240-Robert (1979)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.
Style: detective, vintage
Plot: helicopter, police, rescue, rescue team, search and rescue, paramedic, sheriff, deputy, boat
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 5K
Dalgliesh (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
Style: detective, disturbing, captivating, tense, crime drama
Plot: detective inspector, private detective, private investigator, murder investigation, police detective, investigation, fighting crime, crime investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, forensics, homicide detective ...
Time: 70s
Place: britain, united kingdom, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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