Movies like Master Spy

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Master Spy (1963)
 5.8
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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 Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
Style: independent film, eurospy
Plot: espionage, spy, cold war, police officer, police, doctor, captain, inspector, police inspector, spy hero

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Most similar movies to Master Spy

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out eurospy, independent film, grindhouse and psychotronic films with plots about spy, espionage, cold war, secret agent, agent, spying and james bond spoof mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Master Spy: Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977), Secret Weapons (1985), Top Secret (1967), Assignment K (1968), License to Kill (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
Style: microfilm
Plot: spy, cold war, press conference, double agent, undercover agent, cambridge university, traitor, espionage, stuttering, treason
Time: year 1948, year 1949, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 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 ⇓
87%
 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 ⇓
85%
 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 ⇓
79%
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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 ⇓
79%
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 ⇓
77%
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 ⇓
77%
 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 ⇓
66%
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Some May Live (1967)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her correspondent husband coerces her to pass information to him and the Viet Cong.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: vietnam war, spy, espionage, cold war, husband, intrigue, vietcong, traitor, police inspector, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, asian stereotype ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 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 ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
60%
 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 ⇓
58%
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 ⇓
58%
 5.6
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The Innocent (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man’s best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman who will take him on the dark side of evil.
Style: sexual, political thriller, independent film, sexy, exciting ...
Plot: spy, cold war, berlin wall, iron curtain, stasi, cavalry, crisis, danger, espionage, secret agent, couples, infidelity ...
Time: year 1993, 50s, 1950s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
54%
 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 ⇓
52%
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. ...
Style: eurospy
Plot: espionage, private detective, spy, golf, ex wife, jail cell, blackmail, bare chested male, man in pajamas, phone booth, man wrapped in a towel, trenchcoat ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Pascali's Island (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, independent film, period drama
Plot: unrequited love, spy, cold war, secret mission, mediterranean, love triangle, island, female nudity, male nudity, turkish bath, state affairs, love and romance ...
Time: 1900s, pre world war one
Place: greece, ottoman empire, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
 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 ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
47%
 6.1
 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 ⇓
46%
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I Know You Know (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for ...
Style: uplifting, semi serious, touching, witty, exciting ...
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, government agency, parents and children, working undercover, state affairs, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, eccentric family, undercover, parent child relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
Mission Bloody Mary (1965)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Agent 077 - Mission Bloody Mary or Agente 077 missione Bloody Mary is a 1965 Italian action spy adventure film. The first of the Secret Agent 077 film series directed by Sergio Grieco.
Style: grindhouse, spy comedy, eurospy
Plot: spy, secret agent, espionage, 007, cold war, james bond spoof, spying
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,
Style: parody, psychotronic, spoof, independent film, spy comedy ...
Plot: spy, cold war, aviation, espionage, spying, agent, secret, farce, spy hero, james bond spoof, spy spoof
Time: year 1966
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Dead Season (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A duel between Soviet spy and German war criminal.
Plot: spy, cold war, war crime, nazi, red army, gas chamber, concentration camp
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
39%
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