Movies like Ring of Spies

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Ring of Spies (1964)
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Ring of Spies (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
Style: noir, black and white, independent film, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, soviet spy, agent, counter intelligence, communism, safe, blackmail, wiretap, drunkard, iron curtain, british police, surveillance, shopping cart, morse code, royal navy, secret document, microphone
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: london, warsaw poland, united kingdom

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Most similar movies to Ring of Spies

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out eurospy, realistic, serious and independent film films with plots about espionage, cold war, spy, secret agent, agent, undercover and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Ring of Spies: Assignment K (1968), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), Master Spy (1963), Sebastian (1968), Billion Dollar Brain (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief "Oktober" and involved in a dangerous game ...
Style: neo noir, political thriller, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, neo nazi, british intelligence, undercover, secret agent, agent, secret mission, berlin wall, stasi, undercover agent ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 ⇓
72%
 5.8
 186
Master Spy (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the ...
Style: independent film, eurospy
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, police, doctor, police officer, captain, spy hero, police inspector, inspector
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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716
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601
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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 ⇓
70%
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Style: political thriller, psychotronic, suspense, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, computer, anti communism, spy thriller, railway, martial arts, revolt, woman with a gun, secret mission, machine gun ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: helsinki finland, finland, england, texas, latvia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Target for Killing (1966)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Italy, Austria, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
Style: eurospy
Plot: cold war, espionage, brainwashing, hypnosis, spy, secret, agent, aircraft, photographer, poison, kidnapping, crime boss ...
Time: 60s
Place: montenegro, former yugoslavia, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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 ⇓
63%
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Secret Agent Fireball (1965)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An American CIA agent (Richard Harrison) must find the whereabouts of valuable microfilm that was smuggled over by two Russian scientists who had been hoping to defect.
Style: grindhouse, eurospy, microfilm
Plot: espionage, cold war, spy, agent, bare chested male, girl fight, car chase, hotel, taxi, airplane, swimming pool, secret agent ...
Place: hamburg germany, lebanon, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.9
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Hide and Seek (1964)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected ...
Style: independent film
Plot: eccentricity, money, business, hired killer, defector, professor, train, cold war, weirdo, soviet spy, communist, british police ...
Time: 1950s
Place: yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
57%
Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk ...
Style: psychedelic, spy comedy, political thriller, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, intelligence, espionage, energy, secret agent
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ⇓
54%
 5.3
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Secret Weapons (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hamilton plays a young Russian girl recruited to be a sex spy, seducing men and catching them in compromising situations so they can be blackmailed. The problems start when she falls in love with one of her targets, and must figure out how to avoid ...
Plot: spy, female assassin, cold war, blackmail, surveillance, love, espionage, femme fatale, kgb, seduction, russian spy, female spy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ⇓
53%
 5.4
 58
Top Secret (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Top Secret is a 1967 Italian-Spanish Eurospy film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Gordon Scott.
Style: suspense, eurospy
Plot: espionage, cold war, secret agent, spy, secret, prison, spy thriller, spying, heroes, violence, pistol, spy hero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.5
 147
Red Dragon (1965)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An FBI agent (Stewart Granger) goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.
Style: eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, agent, car chase, machine gun, boat, fbi agent, secret agent, customs, infiltration, assassination attempt ...
Time: 60s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.1
 559
Hammerhead (1968)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
Style: grindhouse, eurospy
Plot: spy, swing, cold war, espionage, helicopter, james bond spoof, stage play, criminal, disguise, agent, chorus girl, police raid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
51%
That Man in Istanbul (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret ...
Style: spy comedy, eurospy
Plot: espionage, cold war, spying, agent, money, james bond spoof, male objectification, evil man, murder, spy
Place: istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
50%
The Liquidator (1965)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
Style: spy comedy, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, secret agent, undercover agent, robot, undercover, politics, british spy, female pilot, cafe owner, soviet spy ...
Place: england, cote d'azur, french riviera, paris france, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Blue Panther (1965)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Morocco
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger - apparently a fugitive from someone aboard - entrusts her with a jewel in the shape of a tiger with ruby eyes. Unknown to her, these false jewels ...
Style: spy comedy, eurospy
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, conspiracy, holiday, jewelry, virus, fugitive, assassin, ski resort, biological warfare, panther ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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 ⇓
50%
The Cat Burglar (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, cat burglar, cold war, burglar, concentration camp, heist, heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, chases and races, undercover ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, undercover, rescue, state affairs, chases and races, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Page Eight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny ...
Style: political thriller, serious, tense, realistic, political ...
Plot: spy, espionage, blackmail, secret service, undercover, government agency, loss of friend, state affairs, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, prime minister, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
Style: clever, bleak, tense, political, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, intelligence, surveillance, immigrant, war on terror, islam, secret service, investigation, betrayal, intelligence agency ...
Time: year 2014, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, hamburg germany, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
 5.9
 12K
Wasp Network (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Havana, early 90’s. René González, a Cuban pilot, steals a plane and flees Cuba, leaving behind his beloved wife and daughter. He starts a new life in Miami. Other Cuban defectors soon follow and start a spy network. Their mission is to ...
Style: political, suspenseful, tense, suspense, feel good ...
Plot: spy, communism, international relations, corruption, drug, baby, informant, wedding, bomb, espionage, cold war, terrorism ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: miami, cuba, havana cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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