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The Spy Killer (1969)
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The Spy Killer (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track down a book containing a list of government agents who are operating covertly in Red China. The reluctant spy discovers that he can't completely trust anyone in this endeavor--not even his former chief
Style: eurospy
Plot: espionage, spy, golf, private detective, blackmail, ex wife, jail cell, bare chested male, phone booth, trenchcoat, man wearing towel, male in bathtub, man wrapped in a towel, man in pajamas, man in bathtub
Place: london

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Most similar movies to The Spy Killer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out eurospy, realistic, grindhouse and independent film films with plots about spy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, bare chested male, agent and undercover mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Spy Killer: Foreign Exchange (1970), OSS 117 - Double Agent (1968), Assignment K (1968), Master Spy (1963), Come Spy with Me (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Foreign Exchange (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues.
Plot: espionage, bare chested male, private detective, spy, british, helicopter, man in pajamas
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
31%
 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 ⇓
30%
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Come Spy with Me (1967)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying to investigate the mysterious murders of two colleagues before an important meeting between the world's most powerful ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: spy, music and dance, underwater, cold war, woman with a gun, espionage, girl, spying, bare chested male, murder, scuba diving, james bond spoof ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
From Istanbul with Orders to Kill (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A starving writer is offered $20,000 by an old friend in the intelligence service to pose as “Felix,” an international smuggler, because the writer looks exactly like this Felix. There’s lots of action, beautiful locations in Italy and ...
Style: microfilm
Plot: spy, murder, murder of a woman, writers, friend, dead woman, espionage, female corpse, woman killed, pantyhose, high heels, stockings ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 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 ⇓
26%
008: Operation Exterminate (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Italy, Egypt
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The British Secret Service sends agent 006 (Alberto Lupo) to Cairo, to collaborate with an American colleague in searching for a stolen anti-radar device. Arriving in Egypt, he finds that agent 008 is actually an attractive female (played by Ingrid ...
Style: eurospy
Plot: double agent, female spy, government agent, agent, helicopter, female agent, spy, explosion
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
24%
Riding the Edge (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Teenage cyclist rescues his dad from terrorists in the Middle East. "Iron Eagle" on a motorcycle.
Style: independent film
Plot: spy, rescue, terrorism, terrorist group, industrial espionage, group, hostage, espionage, motorcycle, desert, terrorist, microchip ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Looking Glass War (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
Style: neo noir, political thriller, contemplative, talky, realistic ...
Plot: espionage, cold war, british intelligence, spy, secret agent, undercover, politics, undercover agent, 007, berlin wall, stasi, communism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: east germany, berlin germany, germany, finland, geneva switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
23%
OSS 117 prend des vacances (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: France, Brazil, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double.
Style: psychotronic, eurospy
Plot: spy, semi nudity, secret agent, ladykiller, espionage, code name
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Assignment Skybolt (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An American secret service agent goes to Greece to investigate a stolen hydrogen bomb. It's connected to an antique coin that belonged to his brother...another agent. Now he's tasked with taking his brother out!
Style: eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, 007, strip show, bare chested male, brother vs brother, treason, torture, shooting, male objectification, judo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Spy accidentally gets an ancient treasure. Several corrupt groups try to steal it from him.
Style: grindhouse, eurospy
Plot: torture, spy, espionage, cold war, lost treasure, exotic locale, bare chested male, fistfight, nightclub, train, gangster, fighting ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Banning (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A playboy golf pro down is on his luck. Kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating he is forced to hustle for a living.
Plot: golf, lonely, gambling, job, bare chested male, argument, single mother, seduction, party, adultery, passionate kiss, loan shark ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.3
 296
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 ⇓
22%
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 62 min.
Story: The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west."
Style: surreal, eurospy
Plot: spy, private detective, german reunification, post cold war
Time: year 1991, year 1990
Place: west germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Once Upon a Spy (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: spy, spying, insane, crazy, james bond spoof, failed pilot, surveillance, espionage, gadget, nasa, computer, villain ...
Place: houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.2
 124
Eternal Wave (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eternal Wave 密战 is a Chinese film set during the anti-Japanese occupation era starring Aaron Kwok, Zhao Li Ying and Zhang Han. It follows the main protagonist Lin Xiang who is a spy working underground to reestablish what was destroyed ruing the ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: world war two, sino japanese war, espionage, japanese occupation, chinese history, communist, spy, social problems, mission, media manipulation, media, japanese occupation of china ...
Place: shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, cold war, berlin wall, espionage, undercover, undercover agent, secret mission, secret agent, iron curtain, double agent, photographer, homesickness ...
Time: future, 20th century, 60s
Place: britain, berlin germany, east berlin, west berlin west germany, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The London Connection (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped on his arrival in London, car chases, foot chases, air chases, British secret service and a couple of American tourist caught in the middle.
Style: independent film
Plot: spy, agent, child spy, jewel theft, kidnapping, scientist, motorcycle chase, secret plan, cia, energy, formula, james bond spoof ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Kill Panther Kill (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the opening moments of Kill, Panther, Kill! we see the daring escape, during a prison transfer, of master criminal Arthur Tracy. Tracy has been in stir for four years after thieving a fortune in jewels worth three million dollars. Now his loyal ...
Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, jewel theft, jewelry, brother, secret agent, twin brother, rodeo
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
21%
 5.5
 505
Danger Route (1967)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, ...
Style: grindhouse, political thriller, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: espionage, secret agent, undercover, cold war, undercover agent, 007, ship, british spy, special agent, disorder, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, russia, england, france, canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Innocent Bystanders (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
Style: political thriller, eurospy
Plot: espionage, redemption, electric torture, fistfight, torture, safe, bare chested male, spy, skeet shooting
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 467
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 ...
Style: noir, black and white, independent film, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, soviet spy, agent, secret document, counter intelligence, royal navy, shopping cart, drunkard, communism, morse code ...
Time: 1950s
Place: warsaw poland, united kingdom, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
20%
 6.6
 5K
Commitment (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father’s botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, hitman, danger, undercover, murder, kidnapping, teenager, asian, inter-korean relations, politics ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, asia, korea, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 2K
Samurai Spy (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot: samurai, ninja, japanese history, medieval, clan, swordplay, martial arts, spy, espionage, heroic mission, hitman, gang ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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