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Final Assignment (1980)
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Final Assignment (1980)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An intrepid television journalist (Genevieve Bujold) sent to cover the Canadian prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union has trouble sticking to her assignment when she unearths a horrific experimental drug trial involving children. Determined to prepare a video that will show the world exactly what's been going on, she dodges the long arm of the KGB and falls into bed with a Communist bureaucrat (Michael York). - Geneviève Bujold, Michael York, Burgess Meredith
Style: independent film
Plot: espionage, german history, reporter, children, escape, experiment, cold war, journalism, assignment, steroids, prime minister, telephone, suit and tie
Time: year 1980
Place: soviet union, canada, ussr, russia
Keyword: canadian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, suspenseful, realistic and serious films with plots about espionage, cold war, spy, politics, dishonesty, conspiracy and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Final Assignment: Eminent Domain (1990), Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998), The Mind Benders (1963), Enigma (1982), Russian Roulette (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 529
Eminent Domain (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Style: independent film
Plot: cold war, teenage girl, poker, desertion, death of child, listening device, espionage
Time: 70s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
82%
The Mind Benders (1963)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, mental disorder, experiment, brainwashing, suicide, train, snow, dog, fear, infidelity ...
Time: year 1963
Place: south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.9
 2K
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 ⇓
71%
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Russian Roulette (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When his prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assasination scheme.
Style: political thriller, independent film, suspense
Plot: hitman, kgb, conspiracy, spy, car, exploitation, cold war, christmas, cia, helicopter, hotel, assassination plot ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, year 1970
Place: soviet union, vancouver, british columbia, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Double Negative (1980)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Michael Taylor, played by Michael Sarrazin, is tormented by his sheer lack of memory concerning the night his wife was found brutally killed.
Style: neo noir, independent film, eighties
Plot: reporter, amnesia, photojournalism, nudity, flashback, female nudity, woman on top, psychopath, rape, terrorism, journalism, murder of a nude woman ...
Time: year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 7.5
 26K
The Passenger (1975)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 126 min.
Story: David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes ...
Style: road movie, stylized, cerebral, philosophical, existential ...
Plot: desert, reporter, journalism, journalist, existentialism, on the road, hotel, loneliness, espionage, identity, road trip, politics ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, europe, italy, barcelona, north africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.3
 119
Spring (1971)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: One of four Hanoun films that take their titles from the seasons of the year, SPRING tells two parallel stories: a man, fleeing the forces of order, takes refuge in the forest, while a young girl living with her grandmother in a nearby village ...
Plot: children, woman, rural setting, escape, shooting, village, folklore, nightmare, coming of age, family relations, teenage girl, menstruation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Company You Keep (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Style: suspense, sexy, captivating, light, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: newspaper, journalism, fbi, journalist, reporter, terrorism, robbery, chase, hidden identity, twists and turns, conspiracy, runaway ...
Time: 70s, year 2012, year 1971, year 1979, year 1972 ...
Place: usa, new york, michigan, canada, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Odessa File (1974)
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 ⇓
61%
The Bedford Incident (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, political, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, submarine, navy, war, battlefield, military, confrontation, u.s. navy, reporter, propaganda, world war two, nuclear ...
Time: 60s
Place: greenland, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.8
 116
Stop Train 349 (1963)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Roaring across the danger zone of europe...A sealed international express, with a human cargo that can explode a continent!
Style: independent film
Plot: iron curtain, railway, train, cold war, escape, train travel, refugee, border, manhunt, stowaway
Place: east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.2
 19K
Topaz (1969)
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: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, betrayal, cuban missile crisis, surveillance, undercover, conspiracy, kgb, politics, government agency ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, year 1962
Place: cuba, france, paris france, copenhagen, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Ipcress File (1965)
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 ⇓
55%
 5.5
 276
The Dirty Game (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A U.S. intelligence general (Robert Ryan) recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet (Henry Fonda), French and Italian (Vittorio Gassman) spies.
Style: anthology, retro, independent film, eurospy, microfilm
Plot: espionage, cold war, spy, secret agent, berlin wall, traitor, vodka, military police, defector, kidnapping, jeep
Place: east berlin, paris france, soviet union, russia, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.6
 172
Skip Tracer (1977)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A repo man skips town after his life is threatened.
Style: independent film
Plot: canuxploitation, loan shark, death threat, collector, loan, money, town
Place: vancouver, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
46%
The Whistle Blower (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
Style: political thriller, political, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, whistleblower, murder, paranoia, spy thriller, intrigue, law enforcement, 007, iron curtain, politics ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 4.0
 1K
Baltic Storm (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, interesting
Plot: terrorism, conspiracy, investigation, state affairs, escapades, journalism, politics, uncover truth, dishonesty, media, fighting the system, ocean ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, estonia, russia, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
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: political, black and white, suspense, grim, realistic ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, berlin wall, iron curtain, british intelligence, double agent, politics, great ending, secret agent, spy thriller, loner ...
Time: 60s, year 1965, 20th century
Place: east germany, berlin germany, london, england, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The China Syndrome (1979)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, political, psychological ...
Plot: reporter, radiation, journalism, power plant, politics, investigation, disaster, nuclear, media, nuclear power, environmental, corruption ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, usa, los angeles, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Wolf Lake (1979)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Canadian film where in ex-marine Steiger, unhinged by the death of his son in Vietnam, terrorizes a young couple
Style: independent film
Plot: murder, desertion, revenge plot, revenge, rape, war veteran, lake, manhunt, deserter, world war two veteran, target practice, gang rape ...
Time: year 1980
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Naked Runner (1967)
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 ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, independent film ...
Plot: spy, assassination, espionage, iron curtain, cold war, on the run, intelligence, invention, holiday, secret agent, undercover, danger ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, copenhagen, london, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 6.9
 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 ⇓
40%
Operation C.I.A. (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young CIA agent is assigned to Saigon to stop a planned political assassination.
Style: independent film
Plot: spy, vietnam war, cia, espionage, cold war, river, snake, u.s. marine, sports car, poison gas, buddhist temple, fistfight ...
Place: saigon
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.3
 982
Call Me (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A journalist receives an obscene phonecall that she mistakes for her boyfriend. She then agrees to meet with the caller at a bar, but instead of meeting the boyfriend, she witnesses a murder.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: female masturbation, transvestite, murder, erotica, reporter, phone terror, pretty girl, terror, drug dealing, anonymous telephone call, phone sex, corrupt cop ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Appointment for a Killing (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Joyce thought she had made the dream marriage. Her husband, Stan, is a successful, handsome dentist, and Joyce, who grew up in poverty, cannot believe her good fortune. But her charismatic husband has a dark side that is about to engulf and destroy ...
Plot: serial killer, dentist, caucasian, married couple, handgun, bullet, telephone, phone booth, gun, kiss, earring, wallet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Plot: cold war, gay, actress playing herself, hamlet, loneliness, cold war era, desertion, spy, iron curtain, autobiography, defector, espionage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, touching, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cold war, love, politics, forbidden love, female secret agent, secret, danger, female spy, love and romance, espionage, spy, desertion ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.1
 392
Cold Comfort (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, scary ...
Plot: blizzard, birthday, nudity, hostage, chess, prisoner, profanity, fugitives, confined, split personality, parents and children, missing person ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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