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Search (1972)
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Search (1972)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe. When picked up for series production, the title had to be changed because Probe was the name of an existing PBS series. In the UK the series aired on BBC 1 under the title Search Control. The show was created by Leslie Stevens, and produced by Leslie Stevens, Robert Justman, John Strong and Tony Spinner. The high concept was described as "science fiction in today's world" and the episodes featured many high-tech elements which are considered common in current science fiction shows.
Style: detective, cerebral
Plot: spy, private investigator, technology, intrigue, operative, mission, hi-tech, computer cracker, community

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, entertaining, detective and exciting films and TV series with plots about spy, espionage, mission, escapades, secret agent, heroes and teamwork mostly in Adventure, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Search: Return of the Saint (1978), The Protectors (1972), 240-Robert (1979), Counterstrike (1990), Burke's Law (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Return of the Saint (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Return of the Saint was a British action-adventure television series that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain on ITV, and was also broadcast on CBS in the United States. It was co-produced by ITC Entertainment and the Italian ...
Style: detective, eurospy
Plot: spy, private detective, robin hood, helicopter, terrorist, mission, assassin, agent, criminal, drug, manhunt
Time: 70s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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The Protectors (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. ...
Style: detective
Plot: spy, espionage, teamwork, investigation, private detective, female detective, mission, private investigator, bullet
Time: 70s
Place: london, italy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.3
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240-Robert (1979)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.
Style: detective, vintage
Plot: helicopter, police, rescue, rescue team, search and rescue, paramedic, sheriff, deputy, boat
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 7.2
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Counterstrike (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, terrorism, 007, crime fighter, espionage, vigilantism, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes, vengeance, fighting crime, private detective ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Burke's Law (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured ...
Style: retro, detective
Plot: spy, camp, police, rolls royce, police detective, murder, millionaire, police officer, police captain, police sergeant
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Bring 'Em Back Alive is an adventure television series starring Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and Ron O'Neal. The series was shown in the United States from September 1982 to May 1983. Set in Singapore, it was one of several shows like ...
Plot: hotel, hunter, world war one, wild animal, big game hunter, smuggler, sultan, animal lover, world war two, love interest, hotel manager, adventurer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939
Place: southeast asia, asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 ⇓
66%
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I Spy (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. The ...
Style: cynical, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, spy, secret agent, undercover, black, woman with a gun, team, wartime, buddy, friendship, travel, partner ...
Time: future, 60s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Thunder in Paradise (1994)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Thunder in Paradise was a one-hour action-adventure TV series from the creators of Baywatch, which starred Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemmon, and Carol Alt. This first-run syndicated TV series originally premiered as a straight-to-video feature film in ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, nautical ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: resort, chase, beach, fighting crime, partner, chases and races, rescue, save the day, boat, mercenary, adventurer, hi-tech ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Jason King (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before ...
Style: detective, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: spy, police, secret agent, playboy, rivalry, adventurer, heroes, heroic mission, womanizer, riddles and clues, undercover, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
54%
Whiskey Cavalier (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 554 min.
TV show
Story: A pair of CIA agents embark on missions to save the world, but have to put up with each other first.
Style: entertaining, captivating, light, humorous, detective ...
Plot: spy, escapades, investigation, strong female lead, salvation, gunfight, murder, male protagonist, love and romance, 007, woman with a gun, fbi agent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Soldier of Fortune, Inc. was a television show created by Dan Gordon which ran for two seasons, from 1997–1999 The show was about an elite team who performed "unofficial" missions for the US Government. During the first season, the ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ex soldier, spy, mission, military, tough heroes, soldier, fighting crime, escapades, partners against crime, heroes, danger, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Patrik Pacard (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: West Germany
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Series about a boy who meets scientists involved in the discovery of a chemical which makes it possible to grow everything everywhere. He becomes entangled in the operations of secret services who try to steal the formula.
Style: fun
Plot: spy, family relations, genetic engineering
Time: 80s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: Escape of the Artful Dodger was an Australian children’s television series first screened on the Nine Network in 2001. Escape of the Artful Dodger is the story of Jack Dawkins, who was introduced in the classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: charles dickens, thief, intrigue, teamwork, frame up, sea voyage, problem, police, theft
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Man Called Sloane (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A Man Called Sloane is an American secret agent adventure television series that aired on NBC during the 1979-1980 television season. It was a Woodruff Production in association with QM Productions, and became the final series produced by Quinn ...
Plot: espionage, secret agent, erotic scene, james bond spoof, intrigue, gadget, vintage car, director, spying, spy, gadgetry
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Department S (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and ...
Style: detective
Plot: spy, police, interpol, analyst, investigation, paranormal investigation, paranormal, playboy, paranormal phenomena, scientist, womanizer, teamwork ...
Time: 60s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Assignments of Special Importance (2013)
Genre: Adventure, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story: A group of Soviet spies performs missions of special importance during World War II.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: spy, spy mission, espionage, love interest, love triangle, mission, soldier, wartime, male female relationship, prospector, relationships, military ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (2005)
Genre: Adventure
Country: France, Canada, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story: Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and their reckless romantic friend D'Artagnan. Supernatural powers ...
Style: exciting, captivating, entertaining, tense, semi serious ...
Plot: musketeer, friends, rivalry, danger, heroic mission, escapades, curses spells and rituals, friendship, courage, love, duel, honor ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Acapulco H.E.A.T. (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism ...
Style: retro
Plot: secret agent, hotel, beach, investigation, woman with a gun, female warrior, modeling, photo model, computer, top secret, former spy, spy mission ...
Time: 90s
Place: acapulco mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Goldfathers (2012)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The new series follows three gold-mining "families" as they battle nature, machines and each other in a brutal race against time to get as much gold from the ground as possible before the icy frost of winter returns to shut them down.
Style: suspense, entertaining, captivating
Plot: mining, gold, coping, family relations, golddigger, money problems, problem, family problems, parents and children, nature, kids and family, problem solving ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Naked and Afraid: Castaways (2023)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Nine challengers are abandoned at a remote tropical island, with no maps or tools, miles away from civilization. In teams of three, they must swim to different ecosystems on the same island – sun-scorched beach, twisted mangrove swamp and dense ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: survival, jungle adventure, pacific island, stranded on an island, struggle for survival, remote island, adventure hero, stranded, island, jungle, teamwork
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Motion (2009)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Motion features host Greg Aiello as he explores a variety of outdoor activities. From the Channel Islands in California to Bryce Canyon National Park, Maui, and Big Sur, Aiello takes a Nature-lovers perspective on exploration. Often times filmed ...
Style: light, exciting, contemplative, captivating, entertaining
Plot: camping, photography, nature, hiking, travel, mountain biking, journey, adventurer, wildlife, travelogue, photograph, adventure hero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti (2016)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Josh Gates sets off on a quest to find the Yeti, a legendary man-ape living in the high altitude of the Himalayas.
Style: captivating, entertaining, enigmatic
Plot: yeti, scientific research, research, uncover truth, journey, scientific discovery, escapades, mountain, puzzle, explorer, secret, knowledge ...
Place: himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Coolest Places on Earth (2013)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The Coolest Places on Earth takes viewers on a journey of discovery to astonishing places- cities, landmarks and jaw-dropping works of nature - exploring the history and learning why it deserves to be called one of the coolest places.
Style: entertaining, exciting, light, captivating
Plot: travel, food, lifestyle, city life, planet, beautiful scenery, nature, big city, earth, city, planet earth, language
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Expedition Bigfoot (2019)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: An elite team of Sasquatch specialists journey into the unforgiving Oregon wilderness in search of Bigfoot. The three-week expedition, based on science and expertise, may finally pull the elusive beast out of the pages of legend and lore and into ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Spy Ninjas - Chad Wild Clay & Vy Qwaint (2018)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A mysterious hacker has been messing with Chad Wild Clay, Vy Qwaint and other YouTubers. He or she has been hacking their YouTube videos, playing challenges against them, sending them on adventures to abandoned places, and taking their car. They ...
Style: semi serious, entertaining, suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot: hacker, adventure hero, friendship, fighting the system, friend, escapades, group of friends, friends, save the day, teamwork
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Edge of Alaska (2014)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Hidden deep in the wilderness of Alaska is the toughest town in America: McCarthy. Only 42 residents brave the extreme conditions. They are mavericks, trailblazers, risk takers and rabble rousers, all trying to escape their past by surviving at the ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, suspense, realistic, non fiction
Plot: survivalist, ordinary people, lifestyle, wildlife, traditional versus modern, risk, nature, wilderness, city, life, survival
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Puppy Place (2021)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Charles and Lizzie Peterson have found the perfect way to foster their love of dogs — literally. The siblings take on the tough but rewarding task of fostering puppies and finding their forever homes. With every new pup, a new adventure begins.
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, funny, touching
Plot: pet dog, dog, animal human communication, childhood, human animal relationship, animal, pets, puppy, children, adventure hero
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Fear Factor (2017)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: This refresh of the breakthrough series is hosted by Ludacris and custom-created for a new generation. Filled with new stunts inspired by urban legends, popular scary movies and viral videos from today’s cultural zeitgeist, contestants will ...
Style: emotional, psychological, disgusting, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: fear, worry, scared, emotional breakdown, rivalry, contests and competitions, escapades, contest, prize, ordinary people, ambitious, fright ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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