Movies like The Lite Trap

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The Lite Trap (1982)
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The Lite Trap (1982)
Original name: Der Westen leuchtet!
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Germany, 1981. State Security Service agent Harald Love is sent on a secret mission from the GDR to the Federal Republic, to verify an informant with the code name "Heinz" who is suspected to be a double agent. A job that may change his life forever...
Plot: espionage, double agent, stasi, spy, female nudity, cold war, bathtub, female full frontal nudity, code name
Time: 80s
Place: west germany

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Most similar movies to The Lite Trap

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about spy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, dishonesty, undercover and double agent mostly in Thriller, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Lite Trap: Farewell (2009), Deutschland 83 (2015), Torn Curtain (1966), Thunder Point (1998), Paradisio (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
 8.1
 15K
Deutschland 83 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: cold war, stasi, espionage, spy, secret police, double agent, political intrigue, undercover, state affairs, rivalry, german soldier, military ...
Time: 20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place: germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic, west germany ...
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82%
 6.6
 29K
Torn Curtain (1966)
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 ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, stylized, political thriller ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, iron curtain, political intrigue, politics, stasi, secrets, manipulation, police investigation, murder mystery ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, east berlin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.2
 280
Thunder Point (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: ira, espionage, spy, unlikely partners, criminal heroes, undercover, save the day, state affairs, dishonesty, world war two, female nudity, bathtub
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 5.2
 34
Paradisio (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: An English professor interested in photography is given a pair of special sunglasses by an Austrian colleague. To his surprise and boyish delight, he discovers they're X-ray specs, which allow him to see through people's clothes! As he ...
Style: sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, spoof
Audience: adult
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, sex spoof, nudity, female nudity, voyeur, spy spoof, nudie cutie
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Agente Logan - missione Ypotron (1966)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Agent Lemmy Logan is investigating the case of a missing NASA scientist and discovers that an ex nazi is developing a new super weapon.
Style: independent film, eurospy
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, james bond spoof, nasa, handsome man, agent, spying, spy hero, secret agent
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Human Factor (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service's African section, is seen taking a file with him to meet his girlfriend Cynthia- the brass fears he may be the leak to Moscow, and allows Dr. Percival to terminate the ...
Style: medical drama, political thriller, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, interracial romance, double agent, conspiracy, politics, communist, vigilante, terrorism, secret agent, suspicion ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: britain, england, africa, europe, south africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.8
 885
Red Heat (1985)
Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: East Germans abduct a U.S. coed (Linda Blair) and throw her in a women's prison run by a brutal inmate (Sylvia Kristel).
Style: sensual, erotic, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: women in prison, prison, women's prison, rape, lesbian sex, lesbianism, lesbian rape, female pubic hair, public nudity, female nudity, lesbian, big breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: germany, east germany, west germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Destructors (1968)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, caper, conspiracy, sabotage, ruby, heist, killer, power
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Shining Through (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, suspense, melancholic, exciting ...
Plot: nazi germany, espionage, world war two, double agent, wartime, spy, wartime life, behind enemy lines, secret agent, working undercover, love and romance, destiny ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, new york, berlin germany, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Terminate with Extreme Prejudice (1982)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many ...
Style: eurospy
Plot: spy, murder of a priest, killing, spying, helicopter, espionage, secret agent, female nudity, shooting, cia, ambush, sexploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Code Name: Emperor (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Juan, a secret service agent, approaches Wendy, a young Filipina who works as a maid for a suspicious couple.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: secret agent, spy, double agent, espionage, special agent, police corruption, undercover agent, criminal, cop, state crimes, political corruption, agent ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 697
Sebastian (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
Style: independent film, eurospy
Plot: cold war, code, mathematics, espionage, british secret service, mathematician, love, man with glasses, british intelligence, computer, hallucinogenic drug, code breaking ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.5
 281
Assignment K (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, eurospy
Plot: espionage, cold war, secret, agent, spy
Place: west germany, austria, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
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: cold war, spy, espionage, law enforcement, double agent, opposites attract, caribbean sea, secret agent, special agent, couples, love affair, working undercover ...
Time: 70s
Place: caribbean, paris france, london, russia, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 402
To Skin a Spy (1966)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A spy story set in Vienna...
Style: eurospy, microfilm
Plot: spy, espionage, agent, secret, faking one's own death, faking own death, secret agent, run over by a car, suicide, strangulation, double agent, fake death ...
Time: 60s
Place: vienna, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Alamut Ambush (1986)
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This British espionage thriller stars Terence Stamp as David Audley, former Oxford professor turned intelligence agent.
Style: suspense
Plot: spy, chess, spy thriller, cold war, ambush, espionage, kgb, british
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Wolf (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, political ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, spy, double agent, infiltration, life turned upside down, fish out of water, on the run, espionage, undercover, dishonesty, betrayal, chase ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Funeral in Berlin (1966)
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, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, espionage, berlin wall, spy, funeral, 007, chase, betrayal, hotel, murder, intrigue, secret mission ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 1940s
Place: berlin germany, germany, east germany, west berlin west germany, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Berlin File (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: JUNG Jin-soo, a South Korean intelligence agent, comes across an unidentifiable operative, a 'ghost,' while surveilling a North Korean weapons deal in Berlin. The mystery figure is a North Korean secret agent, PYO Jong-seong, whose ...
Style: tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: espionage, double agent, spy, intrigue, hidden identity, on the run, manhunt, chase, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, berlin germany, germany, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
OSS 117 - Double Agent (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.
Style: psychedelic, psychotronic, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, undercover, assassin, secret agent, espionage, spying, bare chested male, james bond spoof, code name
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Jigsaw Man (1983)
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: cold war, spy, espionage, face, 007, james bond, surgery, law enforcement, spy thriller, kgb, british intelligence, traitor ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: russia, soviet union, europe, england, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties (1980)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two pretty chorus girls, Cecile and Brigitte, who have been sentenced to prison terms, agree to undertake risky undercover work for Senator Conolly in exchange for their freedom. Investigating the disappearance of well-known personalities, as well ...
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: spy, erotica, exploitation, sex trafficking, prison, rape of a girl, female pubic hair, gay man has sex with a woman, female protagonist, kidnapping, female nudity, nightclub ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 289
Killing Blue (1988)
Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the criminals of Berlin's underground. His new assistant, Shirly Mai, is an attractive and ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, crime wave, police, prostitute, uncover truth, police investigation, chases and races, master criminal, mind game, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Russia House (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.
Style: political, stylized, sex comedy, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, surveillance, iron curtain, cia, undercover, politics, intrigue, international relations, secret agent, russian woman, love ...
Time: 80s
Place: russia, england, lisbon portugal, soviet union, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.2
 292
Predskazaniye (1993)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.
Plot: writers, prophecy, revenge, fortune teller, female nudity, doppelganger, gypsy, middle aged, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 1K
The Serpent (1973)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 124 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 ...
Style: political thriller, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cold war, undercover, secret agent, kgb, double agent, violence, paranoid, international relations, undercover agent, agent, race against time ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, russia, europe, langley virginia, west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.4
 2K
The Assets (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US History, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, political
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, cia, secret agent, communism, double agent, political intrigue, investigation, cold war era, state affairs, treason ...
Time: 80s, 1880s
Place: usa, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
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, cold war, politics, spy, conspiracy, kgb, chase, betrayal, nuclear bomb, race against time, secret agent, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.9
 624
The Sell Out (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Israel
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed ...
Style: suspense, poliziottesco
Plot: spy, cold war, cia, kgb, agent, secret, formula 1, undercover cop, betrayal, police officer, espionage, double agent ...
Place: israel, lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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