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From Istanbul with Orders to Kill (1965)
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From Istanbul with Orders to Kill (1965)
Original name: Da Istanbul ordine di uccidere
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 (presumably) Istanbul, double-crosses galore, fistfights and chases, etc.
Style: microfilm
Plot: spy, writers, murder, espionage, murder of a woman, friend, dead woman, female corpse, woman killed, pantyhose, high heels, stockings, shoes, shot to death, woman shot, shooting a woman, dead woman on floor

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Foreign Exchange (1970)
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Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Come Spy with Me (1967)
Genre: Action, Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Espionage in Lisbon (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure
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Duration: 95 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Spy Killer (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 794
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 655
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